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I've only ever read about VMS in an historic context, like Wikipedia articles and blog posts. DEC and VMS are not well known. That's a shame, considering how mu
by avhception 6mo ago
I've only ever read about VMS in an historic context, like Wikipedia articles and blog posts. DEC and VMS are not well known. That's a shame, considering how much influence they had, especially on WinNT.
- mghackerlady 6mo agoI don't know about VMS specifically (more people will just know it as the thing the VAX runs), but DEC is very well known to anyone in the computer space. The PDP series brought us Unix and GNU, and the VAX was the only mainframe capable of competing with IBM. DEC was the largest terminal manufacturer (they made the vt100 and vt220. if you've ever run a terminal emulator, chances are it's emulating one of those or a machine that did). They created CP/M (and by extension DOS). DEC is very well known
- icedchai 6mo agoCP/M was created by Digital Research, a completely different company. There is no direct relation to DEC (Digital Equipment Corp.)
- mghackerlady 6mo agowell nevermind
- icedchai 6mo agoEven without CP/M, DEC still had incredible influence! The first multi-user system I used was a VAX, back in the late 80's.
- mghackerlady 6mo agoOh, I'm not in any way saying it didn't haha. Every other point still stands. Besides, even if it didn't directly influence DOS it did heavily influence another Microsoft operating system (NT)