Linked by David Adams on Wed 14th Oct 2009 14:43 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
We missed this one when it was announced, but since there's not much VMS news these days, I thought "better late than never." Dying to get your hands on the upcoming OpenVMS 8.4? HP is inviting participants for the field test of the next version of OpenVMS. As a field test site, you have the opportunity of trying the latest version of OpenVMS early.
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RE[2]: I wish I had a VAX to try it on...
by Tuishimi on Thu 15th Oct 2009 15:31
in reply to "RE: I wish I had a VAX to try it on..."
Member since:2005-07-06
Oh yes! Entire programs were written in DCL. The VMS installation code was written in DCL. I worked on the interpreter (for security commands and parameters) and the interpreter code was pretty tight (all things considered).
Ah well. If some serious effort had been made to port it to PCs back in the day then maybe it would still be around today... Of course DEC would have charged $10,000,000 for a license. LOL!
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2007-02-20
Agreed, VMS is a better OS. But I am afraid they (HP) cannot make it free because of patents/copyrights or whatever legal issues.
All PC-OS's look primitive in comparison to VMS, DCL was the most powerfull CLI I ever saw.