[cbm-vic-20]

It's nearly 2022 and the *nix world still doesn't have the seamless clustering support that VMS had in the 80s. K8s gets close, but it's not there quite yet.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Oh, no, it's worse than that: We did have it, but nobody cared enough to maintain it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMosix

[krylon]

I never used it myself, but I was told DEC had transplanted at least part of the clustering tech to Tru64.

Of course, that got cancelled after HP bought Compaq/DEC and did not want to support two Unix systems. IIRC, they promised to port the cluster stuff to HP-UX, but it looks like that never happened.

[pjmlp]

I really liked Tru64, as it was one of the first UNIXes that took security seriously, but sadly it was killed as you point out.

However at least HP-UX got one of the very first container models, HP-UX Vaults, already in late 1990's.

[pjmlp]

Nowadays the only thing close to VMS in spirit is Windows, although it requires a good dosis of Windows Internals and MSDN/Technet archelogy to get that point.

Naturally it is only as inspiration, for the real deal OpenVMS.

[hulitu]

I keep seeing this a lot. What spirit of VMS survived in Windows ? Security in windows is a disaster, clustering nonexistent, filesystem is edges behind.

[pjmlp]

Every OS security is a disaster when running as root.

As for everything else, there is enough literature available when one cares to actually learn about it.