[justinclift]

Oh wow, hadn't heard of that. I'd only heard of them doing minicomputers.

That being said, from that their mainframe effort didn't last long.

So they're not a mainframe vendor any more. Their minicomputers were reliable across decades, rather than their mainframes. ;)

[zie]

Well that was their last mainframe model. Yes, VMS still exists, but only on x86 now. VAX has been dead and buried for a long time now. They had a whole different compute architecture or two between then and now.

VAX -> Alpha -> Itanium -> x86.

I worked on VMS at the tail end of the VAX days and then through the Alpha days. Overall I thought VMS was pretty neat. Built in file versioning, the cluster stuff was awesome, arguably better than what k8s and the like can even provide now. They had uptimes in decades, that's not something k8s or any of the other new clustering stuff can even dream of achieving right now.

[justinclift]

Yeah, I got an account with VMS Software a few months ago.

However, their website and staff members are so brain damaged that I just couldn't bring myself to waste time with it.

Specifically, their website can't even take apostrophe's (nor many other non alphanumeric symbols) in passwords.

Reported that to them, and their staff not only didn't give a shit, they were adamant that only "$#@!%*&" are all the non alphanumeric characters anyone might ever need (in passwords). :(

Thus my complete lack of interest in VMS from that point onwards. ;)