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Yeah, that has always confused me. When I first started playing with Linux and BSD, I would see OpenVMS popping up in my searches, only to find that it wasn't a
by tombert 2y ago
Yeah, that has always confused me. When I first started playing with Linux and BSD, I would see OpenVMS popping up in my searches, only to find that it wasn't actually open.
I'm sure there's legacy reasons for that, but it always sort of annoyed me because I wanted play with it
- bitwize 2y agoIt's "open" in the sense of the Open Software Foundation, OPENSTEP, or OpenGL. Back in the pre-CATB days, "open" meant "developed by a consortium rather than a vendor", or perhaps even just "ported to more than one CPU architecture". This latter sense is what is meant in OpenVMS, as it was ported to DEC Alpha CPUs in the mid-90s.
- flomo 2y agoI believe in this case, "open" = supports UNIX/POSIX apis.
- actionfromafar 2y agoAnd that there was documentation on how it worked.
- zie 2y agoIt was literally a complete bookshelf completely full for the docs.
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- tom_ 2y agoAlways bothered me too. At least POSIX is actually a POS.