VMS is finally dead

[mudskipper]

Like a phoenix from the ashes...

VMS Software, Inc.

Coming soon!

VMS Software, Inc. Named Exclusive Developer of Future Versions of OpenVMS Operating System. - MarketWatch

[Bunk]

Like a phoenix from the ashes...

That's one way to describe it. Another would be "like a half-decomposed zombie clawing its way out of its muddy grave"

[mudskipper]

That's one way to describe it. Another would be "like a half-decomposed zombie clawing its way out of its muddy grave"

Nope, definitely a phoenix.

[Bunk]

Nope, definitely a phoenix.

Suppose I should really have clicked on the link before commenting but that's not the CUK way

[NotAllThere]

VMS: #I am not yet dead, I can dance and I can sing, I am not yet dead, I can do the highland fling#

[BrilloPad]

I loved the way the book showstopper touched on VMS. Dave Cutler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If Digital listened to Dave VMS could still be live.

I remember seeing a VAX2 in the smithsonian - I remember that coming out. I was coding at RAE Pyestock then. National Gas Turbine Establishment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[mudskipper]

Rumour has it he's involved in the new outfit.

Will be interesting to see how it pans out - there's a lot of VMS users still out there. Can't see many new customers taking it on though, and with all the uncertainty any IT manager worth his 6 figure salary will have already put plans in place to replace it over the next decade or so.

[TestMangler]

Hardly anything in IT seems to die when it should - Some crazy old diehards, no doubt with zimmer frames and beards down to their knees, are still using COBOL and Fortran.

OS/2 died ten years too early

[Sysman]

That's one way to describe it. Another would be "like a half-decomposed zombie clawing its way out of its muddy grave"

$ exit 13492
%SYSTEM-F-GAMEOVER, all your base are belong to us

$ exit 2928
%SYSTEM-W-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels

[MicrosoftBob]

HP have got a lot of sauce