My last contact with OpenVMS in a full-time work environment was seven years ago, running 7.1 on an Alpha.
At home I have just the one Windows machine running plain vanilla 8 and the rest are Mint, Ubuntu Studio, Santoku, Arch, CrunchBang and CentOS. My most recent work distros have been RHEL and CentOS. Oh, and FreeBSD. Still miss VMS, though. And the old engineers' DEC. On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2014-10-20 20:37, David Hardy wrote: > >> I started out my wunnerful IT "career" with a PDP-11 and RSX, plus a >> MicroVAX running 3.5 VMS. >> > > My first "Unix" login was to a VAX 750 running Eunice, the DEC Unix > emulator. This ran underneath -- not instead of -- VMS, and was a HUGE > resource hog, so you'd get in big trouble if you used it during regular > student usage hours. This probably did not help my GPA any. > > Wish I could end my work life on OpenVMS, too, but not likely. >> > > I really, really enjoyed VMS, but after that I really, really enjoyed my > Amiga, and, finally, Linux. (What's not in there is that I really, really > hated Windows 1.x, 2.x, and /386, NT 3.51, and OS/2 1.x. Not crazy fond of > their later versions, but those early ones were nightmares incarnate.) > > -Ken > -- Sent from whatever machine I might be on right now.
