Looks like abandonware, and like it never went very far. I'm thinking more like modern Linux: originally, it was just a simple kernel and userspace (using GNU)

Looks like abandonware, and like it never went very far. I'm thinking more like modern Linux: originally, it was just a simple kernel and userspace (using GNU), and interesting to play with if you didn't mind a simple Unix-like system that only had text mode and couldn't really do much. Then XFree86 was added, and lots of other stuff eventually, and now it's a completely modern system running modern software, usable for all modern computing activities on modern hardware. FreeVMS never got there it seems. I'm wondering what it would be like if it had.