"VMS feels DESIGNED" It was. This is one of the reasons outside of its legendary reliability that I keep bringing it up. It's a cathedral where most things fit

"VMS feels DESIGNED" It was. This is one of the reasons outside of its legendary reliability that I keep bringing it up. It's a cathedral where most things fit. There was cruft to deal with. Overall, the pieces work very well together as the teams had a coherent vision for how they wanted the system to work. It also integrates solutions to problems such as distributed locking and node failures that other systems dump on the app developers. Not to mention I never got these testimonials or personal experiences when I started with UNIX... http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/openvms/30th/t_guestbook.html http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/openvms/30th/t_guestbook.html