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It's nearly 2022 and the *nix world still doesn't have the seamless clustering support that VMS had in the 80s. K8s gets close, but it's not there quite yet.
by cbm-vic-20 5y ago
It's nearly 2022 and the *nix world still doesn't have the seamless clustering support that VMS had in the 80s. K8s gets close, but it's not there quite yet.
- pjmlp 5y agoNowadays the only thing close to VMS in spirit is Windows, although it requires a good dosis of Windows Internals and MSDN/Technet archelogy to get that point. Naturally it is only as inspiration, for the real deal OpenVMS.
- hulitu 5y agoI keep seeing this a lot. What spirit of VMS survived in Windows ? Security in windows is a disaster, clustering nonexistent, filesystem is edges behind.
- pjmlp 5y agoEvery OS security is a disaster when running as root. As for everything else, there is enough literature available when one cares to actually learn about it.
- krylon 5y agoI never used it myself, but I was told DEC had transplanted at least part of the clustering tech to Tru64. Of course, that got cancelled after HP bought Compaq/DEC and did not want to support two Unix systems. IIRC, they promised to port the cluster stuff to HP-UX, but it looks like that never happened.
- pjmlp 5y agoI really liked Tru64, as it was one of the first UNIXes that took security seriously, but sadly it was killed as you point out. However at least HP-UX got one of the very first container models, HP-UX Vaults, already in late 1990's.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoOh, no, it's worse than that: We did have it, but nobody cared enough to maintain it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMosix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMosix