What the fuck is OpenVMS and why was its latest release this year? Why have I never heard of this ancient OS that's being developed even today?
Jesus.
It almost looks like ableton life. It's live, but fuck that.
>>106550772Not profitable in the tech world to sell a tried and true operating system that can go 3+ decades in uptime without issue. Use Linux and Windows instead! When it breaks or slows down, just buy a new computer! How else will the MBA types get their needed bonuses this year! :^)
>>106550810how did you select multiple spans
>>106550772>What the fuck is OpenVMS>Why have I never heard of this ancient OSBecause perhaps you are technologically illiterate.VMS is an essential piece of OS history.
>>106550810seems badass
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>>106550914hold CTRL while selecting
>>106551190Nobody ever mentions VMS.
>>106551395doesn't work in brave but does work in cuckfoxthanks
>moved a pair of MicroVAX II with VAX/VMS in 1999 when we moved to a new building>it was the first time they had been shutdown since 1987right in da feels
Has anyone here ever had to work with OpenVMS recently?
>>106554254>/g/>workbwahahaha
>>106551219it's a cheapass ibm mainframe basically
>>106550772it's just the best OS every created, which will turn 50 next year, and yes you CAN run it on your PC now
>>106550772A little history lesson: in the 80s, a team at DEC was developing a new OS called MICA as the successor to VMS. When that project was canceled, Microsoft swooped in and hired the whole team away to develop Windows NT.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi1Lq79mLeE
>>106554698fun fact: Windows NT (and VMS) have a superior architecture to Unix
>>106554864nobody actually debates this it's just that microsoft as an organization is fucking incompetent
>>106554698This guy is also behind Hyper-V/Xbox one OS/VBS on 11
>>106554698That explains why I dislike NT.
>>106554973NT was a mix between modern 32-bit app multitasking and 16-bit app non-multitasked compatibility. In fact, 16-bit apps could crash other 32-bit apps because they could overwrite any memory.
>>106550772an OS that just works (literally) and Window's spiritual ancestor >VMS +1 = WNT
I really hope they will open source it one day instead of discontinuing.
>>106554698the gentleman who's only claim to fame is reimplementing RSX-11 over & over again.The core of NT was stolen from DEC when PRISM was cancelled.
>>106550772i knew of it and wanted to install it but there's little documentation. i think i even pirated an iso from somewherei want to try multics and openvms and OS/2 and i guess also symbiotics but i'm kinda lazy
>>106556257You can apply for a hobbyist license.
>>106556472>you can dox yourselfwhen i can download it off the internet for free
>>106556180redpill me on RSX-11
>>106556180qrd
>>106556472Didn't they discontinue those?
>>106556706https://vmssoftware.com/products/licensescommunity license at bottom
>>106556522https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSX-11
>>106550772First large systems I ever worked on were VAX/VMS, "Orange manuals not grey ones". I'm that old. VMS still has in it, even today, superior functionality to UNIX/Linux in a whole number of ways. High availability clustering at the hardware layer, batch/job-control subsystem, granularity of user and process permissions.
>>106550772I worked with OpenVMS like 20 years ago. When did it get a GUI? It was text based back then.Only had a crash when the hardware itself failed.
>>106551351teach me pls
>>106556875VAX/VMS had UIS back in 1987 or earlier. UIS was replaced by DECwindows after 1987.
>>106556834Tops-20 Orange binders. Had those when I was working for DEC.There's your orange, complete with the PDP-11 used to start a DECsystem-20 KL-10.
>>106556834The clustering in the data center came with a pricey isolation transformer (star coupler) for each vax to plug into. Hung off the same star coupler was an HSC-50... a PDP-11 to act as a I/O controller for the cluster.
