VMS books

[Robert Brockway]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:

> My impression has been that VMS's time has passed.  This may well be
> because of the circles I travel within.

It is still used out there in many mission critical systems - as are a lot 
of more exotic OSes like QNX & OS-9 (Microware, not Apple).

It's a shame that some of these OSes didn't become more popular as many of 
them had capabilities 20 or 30 years ago that put modern mainstream OSes 
to shame[1].

If OpenVMS were OSS I think it might really have a 2nd chance at success.

[1] Unix/Linux included.

Cheers,

Rob

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