I’ll always have a soft spot for VMS, the first “big computer” OS I ever used. And perhaps did a bit of hacking (allegedly) back in 1990. Did the hobbyist lice

I’ll always have a soft spot for VMS, the first “big computer” OS I ever used. And perhaps did a bit of hacking (allegedly) back in 1990. Did the hobbyist licensing [1] get resolved? I was inspired by the work of Andrew Back [2] getting VMS clusters working on Raspberry Pis. The fact that it’s still around today is a testament to our purest technologist passions. I’m old enough to remember how we though the (open) web would be (creating one of the first 100 websites), and now curmudgeony enough to complain about what it’s become. Come on, we all know it’s at least a bit shit. But also awesome. I guess I was lucky enough to be around VMS, SunOS and NextSTEP in a 12 month period and filled with the optimism that the intersection of them, with some of that all seen mostly via an Amiga interface, could become. Man, they were the days. I think that even with all the pressures put upon the creative devs, product folks, and hard-working ops and support folks that we’re all driving towards what’s best for our organisations - despite the mediocre early 20 MBAs and managers who’ve have no formal training. Apologies for the extra episode of HCF but in those days it was more exciting than helping folks with cloud, IAC, etc. But I’m just a grumpy ops bloke. Off to write something in BASIC on my Spectrum and remember why computers are fun. [1] http://www.openvmshobbyist.com/news.php http://www.openvmshobbyist.com/news.php [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20190620014639/https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/a-raspberry-pi-vax-cluster https://web.archive.org/web/20190620014639/https://www.rs-on... [EDIT[ typo “produce folks” and “product folks” are completely different!