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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: 2) by kaszz on Friday April 21 2017, @06:55AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Friday April 21 2017, @06:55AM (#497274) Journal

    How is memory management? ie where a memory section in your process memory may be fragmented to just about anywhere in physical memory or even disc blocks.

    What makes it possible to migrate nodes? it must both transfer memory and instruction pointer, register setting, processor mode, device state etc and then there's multiprocessing. So it must more or less stop a processor, save all status to a communication line, verify and continue on another node. A lot of atomic operation issues and consistency. Though a modified scheduler on Unix should maybe be able to do the same?
    (I'm thinking this has some similarities to the "Freezer" cartridges in the past)

    Can a user mount their own filesystem, that only they can access? (like on Hurd) as for the rest it seems VMS more or less deals with the filesystem as a SQL database. Every storage object is a SQL row or similar paradigm.

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