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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: Could you write a BSD like os in ADA?
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:12:43 -0500
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Date: 2016-08-23T23:12:43-05:00
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On 8/23/2016 3:43 AM, Bob Broderbund wrote:

> VMS is a good OS but it's far behind MVS and seems to be suffering from a
> loss of (management) direction and not enough cash. It probably started
> going downhill when it moved from being owned and managed end-to-end by one
> company to today where it is spread across two companies for software and
> another one or two for hardware.
>

btw,  It is possible now to run VMS on a PC (X86). There
is A.V.T company that specializes in this using
VirtualBox. I have not tried it

http://www.avtware.com/vms-tru64

"OpenVMS and Tru64 Support
OpenVMS logo vtAlpha and vtVAX virtualize the
Alpha or VAX hardware interface inside a x86 host system. As such,
they are able to run the same OpenVMS or Tru64 versions that were
supported by the original Alpha/VAX hardware."

So one does not need a VAX or Alpha hardware to run VMS now,
which is nice.

--Nasser