Revitalizing the Internet and VMS 267
Da Beave writes "Similar to the
"Going Back to the Past of the Internet" /. post,
these guys want
to not only revitalize the Internet, but the
OpenVMS Operating
System (Started by Digital, then to Compaq, now to HP....).
They have a cluster of VAXen (32 bit) and Alphas (64 bit) for public
(non-commercial) usage.... With more compilers than you can
shake a stick at, and it's considered one of the most secure
OS's around....." VMS was one of the first operating systems I learned to use. This page really brings back some memories, both good and bad.
Re:VMS didn't leave (Score:3, Insightful)
All of these owe the basic structure of the CLI and file naming conventions (forward slash for parameters, 3-letter file extensions, etc) to the older PDP-10 operating system which dates back to the 1960s. The same basic CLI and file naming conventions were also supported by OS/8, DEC's PDP-8 operating system written mostly by Richie Lary.
OS/8's sources named it the "*bleep*" operating system, otherwise known as the First Upward Compatible Keyboard Monitor, or FUCK'M, operating system for the PDP-8. When Richie first proposed writing a PDP-8 operating system that was command-level compatible with the 36-bit PDP-10 timesharing operating system (thus the "upward compatible keyboard monitor" moniker), he was told "no" so wrote the first version of OS/8 on the sly. The acronym described his personal feelings towards management at the time, and later it became the standard single-user PDP-8 operating system.
Personally I think all of Dave Cutler's OS's more or less sucked, starting with RSX-11M and still true today with NT.
Re:Stupid Contracts (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:but VMS lives (Score:1, Insightful)