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long live DEC OpenVMS, it's really rare to see an article on hacker news about OpenVMS, but it has happened before. long live DCL, ASTs. i started work in 200
by epynonymous 10y ago
long live DEC OpenVMS, it's really rare to see an article on hacker news about OpenVMS, but it has happened before. long live DCL, ASTs. i started work in 2000, but was still able to play around with vax and alpha clusters, sometimes if i recall correctly, a mix of vax and alpha nodes in the same cluster. OpenVMS was such a stable operating system, by 2000, most of the good DEC engineers had left already for companies like Microsoft (Dave Cutler, etc), but that legacy code was still quite amazing. long live ZKO and DEC, i learned a lot from that job, great to see this coming, but not sure if it's still relevant these days with all my development on linux. could you imagine running this port on aws, like some customer migrating to the cloud all their legacy infrastructure? that would be such a niche market.