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well VMS still exists .... both as itself and as the underpinnings of WindowsNT (and modern windows)
by Taniwha 9y ago
well VMS still exists .... both as itself and as the underpinnings of WindowsNT (and modern windows)
- ghaff 9y agoMany are still around to some degree. OS/400 is now IBM i. MVS is now z/OS (for IBM mainframes). OpenVMS as you say. Most of the operating systems that were originally written for minicomputers aren't radically different in fundamental design from Unix and Windows NT. My suspicion is that, absent Unix or something that followed a similar historical trajectory, these OSs would have had a longer run as non-legacy products, the landscape would have been even more fractured than it was with the Unix wars, and Windows would have become more dominant in the server space than it eventually became. The question I really don't know the answer to is whether, given the rise of the mainstream Internet, an open source operating system and infrastructure software necessarily would have followed. Or would the world look very very different.
- bitwize 9y agoWhile it's true that Dave Cutler incorporated many ideas from VMS into Windows NT... they are very different beasts with very different code bases. Not even related in the same way that, say, Unix and Linux are.