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RIP VMS.
It was the first Gigabyte scale OS I ever came across and the last one to be fully documented on paper so it holds a special place in my personal history of computing.
It will be interesting to see if its progeny go on to dominate the Terabyte era as well or if something genuinely conceptually new emerges.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Sad news. Future generations will miss it, and they won't even know.
In my opinion, the last OS to be documented at all I have been missing the Digital Command Language for decades
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YvesDaoust wrote: Digital Command Language A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...
I worked for a defense contractor. We had a project which required strict FORTRAN-77 adherence. We were using VAX FORTRAN on a microVAX-II running VAX/VMS 4.0. There were a couple VAX FORTRAN features we wanted to use during development that weren't FORTRAN-77. I wrote a preprocessor in DCL that converted the VAX FORTRAN constructs into equivalent FORTRAN-77. Roughly a third of the final product was code generated by this preprocessor.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Read the linked article and looked at the referenced roadmap. Having said that, can anyone provide an article from HP that says they are EOLing OpenVMS? The roadmap says "Standard Support at least through...".
Can someone provide non-legal speak with an actual press release type article?
Both my current and previous work sites use OpenVMS.
Thanks,
Tim
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Support will be provided until 2020. See the last entry on this[^] page.
/ravi
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Thanks... sent the information on.
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I still actively develop for VMS for a customer. The hardware has all turned into virtual machines running on (ironicly) HP servers. I spent most of the 80's and 90's coding Ada, C, C++, and (my personal favorite) VAX assembler. Two things I really miss that the Windows World never had: 1) the absolute consistency of the OS and run-time. Things worked exactly as you expected them to. 2) The fabulous documentation set. Everything explained, examples given, every return code and side effect documented. Fantastic OS for its time.
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You are welcome When I was an employee I managed to get a few things into the doc set to make it easier to find some documentation related to System Services.
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Sorry, I was in the field in Texas. I submitted a lot of documentation SPRs and spent a lot of time in the VMSNotes Notes conference.
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I still have a MicroVAX 3100-80 (and parts of the Orange Wall) sitting next to me.
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The REALLY old-timers in VMS land have the blue wall. I also miss working on VMS very much. It was (is) truly a terrific system.
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As a former DEC employee, I'm glad K.O. isn't around to see this, even if he was a hardware guy.
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I wish HP would rip out LMS and release VMS as open source software.
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I thought I'd mix things up a bit today and give my readers a quiz. The C language is perhaps the most popular computer language in existence, but it's also quite odd, and because of that often poorly understood. I'd like to give you a quiz to see how much you know about some of the odd but useful corners of the language. School's nearly out for summer. Here's a pop quiz.
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At today's WWDC keynote event, Apple announced the next version of its Mac operating system, dubbed "Mavericks" after a surfing area north of Half Moon Bay in California. Mavericks will feature many new Finder features including tabs, full-screen capability, tagging, and independent handling of multiple displays. Registered developers can preview Mavericks starting today.
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Ever since the Android platform emerged as the only real competitor to Apple’s iOS devices, we’ve been treated to a debate which I’ll oversimplify: If Apple makes all the money but Android gets all the volume, who will win? A cursory survey of tech journals and blogs would lead one to believe that the case is closed: Market Share trumps Profit Share. It always does. So Apple should call it a day? I’m skeptical. Will the vertical simplicity of Apple's business will tilt the field in its favor?
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It is amazing to live in an environment where the Internet connection is ubiquitous and fast. But in case the tube is having a problem and the bits from the web server are broken into random pieces, how does the web site look like? If the content degrades gracefully, the lack of style sheets may reduce the attractiveness of the page but it should not significantly hamper the experience. Fortunately, there is a way to automatically check the appearance of a web page under that circumstance. So tonight I'm gonna browse 'em like it's 1999.
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Bayesian inference grew out of Bayes' theorem, a mathematical result from English clergyman Thomas Bayes, published two years after his death in 1761. In honor of the 250th anniversary of this publication, Bradley Efron examined the question of why Bayes' theorem is not more widely used—and why its use remains controversial among many scientists and statisticians. As he pointed out, the problem lies with blind use of the theorem, in cases where prior knowledge is unavailable or unreliable. Nate Silver used Bayesian inference... for sports and politics. Here's how.
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