VMS was indeed ahead of its time on clustering. iirc, Leslie Lamport actually discovered Paxos while he was at DEC. DEC was building a fault-tolerant, distribut

VMS was indeed ahead of its time on clustering. iirc, Leslie Lamport actually discovered Paxos while he was at DEC. DEC was building a fault-tolerant, distributed filesystem, but their protocols were unsound, and Leslie set to work trying to prove that their design goals were impossible. instead, he found a mathematically sound way to do it (Paxos!) see https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/pubs.html https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/pubs.html