OpenVMS x86 is now available for (most) hobbyists! Almost a year after the official release most hobbyists can now login to the Service Portal to download their copy of OpenVMS 9.2 for x86,
X86E921OE.ZIPand the PAK (license) files (x86community-20240401.zip), valid until April 2024.
There seems to have been very little fanfare for this one, which seems odd considering the massive undertaking porting VMS to x86 has been. I definitely need to spend some time diving deeper into VMS and OpenVMS to prodive more useful blurbs than this one, but I fear this particular platform is a little beyond my pay grade.
IBM i and OpenVMS are probably only two really different OS that are still being commercially available and different from both Windows and *nixes.
Well, there is Amiga OS 4.1, but I agree with you, from the big ones it’s IBM i, OpenVMS, and Windows that aren’t Unix or Linux.
There are a few RTOS that are in lots of embedded products, like VxWorks that are also their own weird little thing.
Some people may consider OpenVMS and NT to be somehow of the same family (even if distant cousins)…