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Mr X's creations and VAX/VMS
Calum:
hear hear!
laukev7 it is good to see that somebody around here is more interested in open discussion than in pointless adherence to rules and regulations!
WMD:
--- Quote ---Yes the VMS kernel is pretty rad,
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NT isn't really the VMS kernel. They were written by the same guy, but aren't that much alike. VMS had a lot more features (like native clustering).
Besides, NT was written based on the *original* VMS kernel, yet, by the time NT was developed, the then-current VMS kernel had been extensively modified. If you looked at it today, NT probably bears no resemblence to whatever the latest VMS is (OpenVMS, I believe).
Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: laukev7 ---Well, sorry if I come off as a useless dingbat, but I do not see why I should bin a thread which started off as Mr.X showing off his creations (whether you wish to call it art or not I will leave up to you).
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Sorry I didn't make myself clear I was refering to his shitty "First post" "200th post" and BeOS spam.
--- Quote from: laukev7 --- Besides, Kintaro and Muzzy were starting an interesting discussion about VAX machines and VMS.
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How about changing the title to reflect this change maybe something like "MrX's art and VMS debate"
--- Quote from: WMD ---NT isn't really the VMS kernel. They were written by the same guy,
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David Cutler and some of the VAX team I believe.
--- Quote from: WMD --- but aren't that much alike. VMS had a lot more features (like native clustering).
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NT is better than the other MS operating systems because it was develoed by different people, but to MS' specification though so it wasn't as good as VMS.
--- Quote from: WMD ---Besides, NT was written based on the *original* VMS kernel, yet, by the time NT was developed, the then-current VMS kernel had been extensively modified. If you looked at it today, NT probably bears no resemblence to whatever the latest VMS is (OpenVMS, I believe).
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Did they release it under the GPL then?
Or is OpenVMS a GPLed VMS clone.
Anyway has anyone tried OpenVMS?
If so is it any good?
Laukev7:
--- Quote from: Calum ---hear hear!
laukev7 it is good to see that somebody around here is more interested in open discussion than in pointless adherence to rules and regulations!
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Believe me Calum, I had to get burned quite a few times to learn. ;)
WMD:
--- Quote ---Did they release it under the GPL then?
Or is OpenVMS a GPLed VMS clone.
Anyway has anyone tried OpenVMS?
If so is it any good?
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Despite the name, it's not open source at all. It's owned by HP and they don't do much with it anymore. (read: They're trying to kill it.) It runs on Itanium, VAX (what's left of it), and Alpha (what's left of it). There is a community-type site, http://www.openvms.org, with a homepage title of "OpenVMS: The OS with longer uptimes than MS Windows support policies." :D
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