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If they're discussing historical OS's, which I think they were, I thought VMS was written in BLISS. That one was sorta important, and I recall "Ignorance is BL
by jleyank 5y ago
If they're discussing historical OS's, which I think they were, I thought VMS was written in BLISS. That one was sorta important, and I recall "Ignorance is BLISS, BLISS is ignorance" T-shirts.
- lproven 5y agoHi. Author here. It's not all historical stuff by any means; in fact, I tried to skew it towards stuff from the recent or modern era and things that are still in maintenance, still being worked on, or actively sold. And, yes, I did consider VMS, but the article was getting too long already and while BLISS does qualify, it's also relatively obscure. Maybe I made the wrong call there: it's in current use, on sale, and about to become generally available on x86-64. Ah, well.
- jleyank 5y agoGoogle sea that openvms is still used. Talk about inertia…
- lproven 5y ago"Google sea"? VMS is alive, well, and about to ship a new version. https://vmssoftware.com/about/openvmsv9-1/ https://vmssoftware.com/about/openvmsv9-1/ It is exceptionally solid, it has the best clustering ever invented for any OS in history, and above all: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
- wrycoder 5y agoGreat job, thanks. I’ve been around awhile, but I’d not heard of about a third of those systems.
- lproven 5y agoOh cool! Thank you!