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by KingOfCoders 1421 days ago
In the beginning we had the VMS versioning file system [1] (well I had you might be older ;-) And that was enough. Then we got RCS. Then CVS. Then we got SourceForge. And that was enough. Then we got Git!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Files-11 <3
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techdragon 1421 days ago
To this day I still wish many of the VMS innovations hadn’t remained walled off. Files-11 was a brilliant thing.
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daxelrod 1421 days ago
I feel the same way about logicals. For those unfamiliar, the OS had a distributed hierarchical key-value store like etcd or zookeeper built in, years earlier than these technologies.
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