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I got my start on OpenVMS at DECUServe 5 years ago: https://raymii.org/s/blog/My_first_OpenVMS.html

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But now OpenVMS is available on x86 and you can run it in VirtualBox yourself: https://raymii.org/s/blog/OpenVMS_9.2_for_x86_Getting_Starte...

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I've worked with VMS in the early 90s. Still my favourite operating system, and I'm really happy they ported it to the x86 architecture.

If you haven't already seen it some story's from Andy Goldstein[1].

The quality of OpenVMS is really something else, also repeated from Dave Cutler[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vASxBpf4ti0&list=PLewDXk9a8l...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi1Lq79mLeE

How come? What about it do you appreciate?

Hey! Thank you very much for your blog, got (again) into OpenVMS X86 because of it!

BTW when do you blog about a cluster setup? ;)

Sign me up for this too!

It's on my todo list! I hope to integrate it with some modern software like haproxy or the built in Apache fork, next to file sharing etc.

ATM i test OpenJDK with Yacy, clustering Yacy via OpenVMS is next ;)

Samba for file sharing? I led development efforts for the first Samba release on VMS (IA64) working at HP. It was not performant enough compared to ASV but we were on the right path.

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