Computer World is reporting that VMS Software, Inc. has licensed OpenVMS from HP and will eventually provide an x86 version. (VAX/Alpha/Itanium to X86 Dynamic/Static Translator? Huzzah!) For those that can't wait, there's FreeVMS or you can play with the real thing at the Deathrow OpenVMS cluster
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VMS Will be Ready to Run on x86 in 2019! 35 comments
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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: 5, Interesting) by Sir Finkus on Saturday August 02 2014, @10:45AM
You can also sign up for a shell account on a VAX-11 at the Living Computer Museum [livingcomputermuseum.org] in Seattle if you want.
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(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Sunday August 03 2014, @12:42AM
This is why servers have always been funny beasts and completely unlike any other system out there. You see with desktops, laptops, cellphones, hell even embedded, having an OS out of circulation and support this long? Would be the kiss of death as there wouldn't be any drivers for the hardware. But servers are funny beasts where 10+ year old hardware is the norm, after all you wouldn't be seeing Rage Pro II GPUs and AC97 sound chips being put in any other new hardware would you?
So only in servers could you see an OS hosted at the Living Computer Museum brought back from the dead and actually still be considered a viable alternative. So I personally welcome OpenVMS back from the grave, its just a shame that its not that easy anywhere else as I would love a version of OS/2 Warp with support for the hardware we have now...can you imagine how fast that sucker would be for A/V tasks?
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(Score: 2) by tynin on Saturday August 02 2014, @02:15PM
Only two entries, but they were fun BOFH admins vs "37337 HaX0rZ" stories.
http://deathrow.vistech.net/wallofshame.shtml [vistech.net]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by BsAtHome on Saturday August 02 2014, @02:18PM
For it to be "dead" it is a prerequisite to be "alive" first. I submit that *VMS never has been alive in the first place. A primary parameter of being alive is the ability to self-replicate. VMS has never been able to self-replicate successfully. All instances seen so far involved bludgeoning copy errors in the genome, causing the system to fail in spectacular ways.
VMS's metabolism has always been against it from getting anywhere. The tons of food were mainly used to generate excessive heat and that needed to be ventilated out all the time. Thermal regulation of the system would often be unstable causing more genonic errors to pop up. Most assigned symbiotic creatures have long since been eradicated by VMS's inability to adapt to the environment and only very few remaining symbionts, without alternatives, are left and will soon vanish in the oblivion of _NLA0: too (if still operable).
(Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Saturday August 02 2014, @06:12PM
No. All that's needed is a confirmation by Netcraft. ;-)
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(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Saturday August 02 2014, @10:05PM
I hate to be the one that delivers that news but, sorry, it is. And I say that as an ex user (and still hater) of VMS
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04 2014, @12:34AM
Please tell that to the Fortune 1000 company I work for that still has it at the core of our inventory, order entry, and AP/AR systems. We're going to get "an ERP" "real soon now".
(Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday August 03 2014, @12:34PM
"OpenVMS Not Yet Dead"
According to the PR guys you're not a real OS until you make at least a laughable attempt at mobile, phone or tablet your choice.
So I'll wait till I get my OpenVMS phone.
The insane part is I always thought VMS was pretty awesome and it could make a decent mobile OS.
(Score: 2) by youngatheart on Sunday August 03 2014, @06:05PM
VMS: I'm not dead!
Dead Collector: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.
IT: Yes he is.
VMS: I'm not.
Dead Collector: He isn't.
IT: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
VMS: I'm getting better.