I believe UNIX was developed at Bell Labs about 10 years before VMS hit the streets. And it was developed on a DEC machine, PDP-15 if I remember correctly.
WNT was developed in the early 90s and got its name from VMS. Remember the HAL-9000 in 2001 Space Odyssey?
HAL was derived from IBM. H+1=I, A+1=B, L+1=M. This was done by Arthur C. Clarke
WNT V+1=W, M+1=N, S+1=T
This was done by Dave Cutler.
Define modern please. How is VMS a dinosaur? Version 5 and older perhaps, but v7.3-1 (current) has all the features one might need in this modern world we live in.
Go to http://www.openvms.compaq.com and browse around. Not too many dinosaur items there.
Shutting down vaxes should have been done long ago if porting to Alpha was done, either by ISVs or internally written apps. Lots faster, 64 rather than 32 bits, cheaper to maintain, etc.
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I believe UNIX was developed at Bell Labs about 10 years before VMS hit the streets. And it was developed on a DEC machine, PDP-15 if I remember correctly. WNT was developed in the early 90s and got its name from VMS. Remember the HAL-9000 in 2001 Space Odyssey? HAL was derived from IBM. H+1=I, A+1=B, L+1=M. This was done by Arthur C. Clarke WNT V+1=W, M+1=N, S+1=T This was done by Dave Cutler.
Define modern please. How is VMS a dinosaur? Version 5 and older perhaps, but v7.3-1 (current) has all the features one might need in this modern world we live in. Go to http://www.openvms.compaq.com and browse around. Not too many dinosaur items there.
Shutting down vaxes should have been done long ago if porting to Alpha was done, either by ISVs or internally written apps. Lots faster, 64 rather than 32 bits, cheaper to maintain, etc.
In its newer versions and h/w it indeed supports hot CPU swaps among other things.