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I had the exact opposite reaction. I grew up on UNIX. BSD, Solaris, HP-UX, then later Linux; though always as a user. The first time I ran into VMS, I fell i
by vt240 3y ago
I had the exact opposite reaction. I grew up on UNIX. BSD, Solaris, HP-UX, then later Linux; though always as a user. The first time I ran into VMS, I fell in love. It was just such a different experience. Granted that OpenVMS has been trapped in a bubble, and that using even the latest versions, feels like you've been teleported back to 1990. I'll be really interested to see, now that the platform is much more accessible, if they can build a community of users again.
- zabzonk 3y ago> It was just such a different experience. yes, but a better one??? having said that, there has always been a huge soft spot in my heart for IBM VM/CMS.
- rnd0 3y agoI would be surprised if they do to be honest. What possible niche could it fill that a community ...a viable community... could be based on?
- hulitu 3y agoIt has a versioning filesystem, i heard that security is better, can run POSIX programs (X was at some time available) , so why not ?