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Neat writeup. I was always a fan of VMS; my university still had a VMS cluster that was used every quarter for class registration and completely ignored the res
by floren 7y ago
Neat writeup. I was always a fan of VMS; my university still had a VMS cluster that was used every quarter for class registration and completely ignored the rest of the year, but if you poked around you could still find relics of the old days, like ancient discussion forums software still containing posts from the 90s.
If I can put on my enormous pedant hat for a moment though, a VAX is a minicomputer, not a mainframe.
- the_seraphim 7y agoThat must be quite the pedant hat to be arguing that point especially considering a mainframe and a minicomputer and the decision to label a machine one or the other is almost purely a marketing decision, i would enjoy your justification
- TheOtherHobbes 7y agoA MicroVAX was certainly a mini. But the range extended up to the VAX 9000 which was a >$1,000,000 mainframe.
- walshemj 7y agoVAX and their competitors where supermini's
- slavapestov 7y agoWell, to be extra pedantic, the latter MicroVAXen used the same enclosure as the "desktop" VAXstations, except without the graphics and peripherals -- just serial ports for a VT terminal!
- virusduck 7y agoWe had that too in the early aughts--used a program called OASIS (may have been a custom application...not sure). Some older profs still used the VMS sys for email (I think it had PINE for VMS installed for easy use).