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An Interview With Mark Gorham Of OpenVMS

Posted by timothy on from the installable-personality dept.

Ken Farmer writes "There's already been one press interview with Mark Gorham, but that encounter with HP's VP of the OpenVMS Systems Division omitted some technical details that warrant further attention. Hence, SKHPC thought it appropriate to go on a deep dive with one experienced in OpenVMS and SCUBA diving as well."

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  1. Nice quote snippet... by rjstanford · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "...pretty popular in the low-end market (1-8 CPUs, up to 64GB of memory..."

    Yup. Its refreshing to actually see opinions like this acknoledged on /., if even in a linked-to article, where for the longest time a 4 way box was considered xtR3m3 (or whatever the l33t spelling would be these days).

    And no, there's not really much of a need for a beowolf cluster of those things. Imagine a life instead. Mmm... isn't that nicer?

    Yeah, yeah, flamebait...

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  2. How much of Dave Cutler's OpenVMS is left? by emil · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Cutler's original kernel was written in assembler. I assume that it was completely replaced with something in C. Was this done for VMS 5, or later (for the Alpha port)?

    Was VMS designed with clustering in mind from the start? Did clusters really get going with v5?

    Although, for a guy who implemented his kernel in assembler, Cutler's comment that UNIX "is a junk OS designed by a committee of Ph.D.s" is a little shaky, even if he was the project leader for Windows NT.

  3. reasons for using VMS by belmolis · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The people I have known who ran VMS were all physicists and electrical engineers who had large amounts of legacy Fortran code that they didn't want to port, and for which the VMS Fortran compiler was said to be superior to anything available for UNIX at the time. I wonder to what extent eople actually like VMS as an OS and to what extent its survival is due to heritage code?

  4. Re:New VMS users? by 0racle · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I knew a company that rebooted their VMS boxes once a year when the building did their power test. It was more fear of a power spike then anything elss. Other then that, they never had a need to reboot the systems.

    Its not scary, its what an Enterprise Class OS should be.

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    "I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."