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posted by on Thursday April 20 2017, @10:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the breaking-news dept.

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Or 2018 if you're brave. For now, we have a boot screen!

Story's a bit dated but being as they're in no rush, I don't see any need for us to be either. So, you lot think we'll ever actually get to play with a VMS box on cheap hardware or is this going to be another DNF situation?

Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/13/openvms_moves_slowly_towards_x86/

Previous coverage:
OpenVMS Not Yet Dead.


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Nuke on Thursday April 20 2017, @01:48PM

    by Nuke (3162) on Thursday April 20 2017, @01:48PM (#496849)

    Didn't Microsoft already hire Dave Cutler to do it?

    That's what I first thought of. In 1988 the DEC VMS team was poached by Microsoft to write NT, and they took the VMS ideas, if not some actual code, with them. DEC were thinking of suing, but MS settled with them out of court. Windows NT (and hence XP etc) is what VMS became.

    Microsoft never really wrote an OS from scratch. They bought DOS (and hired its developer, Tim Paterson) from Seattle computers, and hired the DEC team (headed by Dave Cutler) to write NT. Windows pre-NT was started as a GUI (inspired by Apple's Lisa and also VisiOn which Gates saw at a trade show) duck-taped onto DOS.

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