It's always fun to find some random back end process that keeps a significant chunk of an F500 afloat runs on OpenVMS that a cave troll keeps alive in the basement of a satellite office in Des Moines.
November 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
It's always fun to find some random back end process that keeps a significant chunk of an F500 afloat runs on OpenVMS that a cave troll keeps alive in the basement of a satellite office in Des Moines.
In a nutshell, the way DEC, then Compaq, then HP did the ports of OpenVMS worked with very little emulation. They had ahead-of-time translators for binaries from VAX to Alpha, and from Alpha to Itanium. But the goal for each port was close to 100% source code compatibility, even for VAX MACRO asm.
October 19, 2025 at 4:27 AM
In a nutshell, the way DEC, then Compaq, then HP did the ports of OpenVMS worked with very little emulation. They had ahead-of-time translators for binaries from VAX to Alpha, and from Alpha to Itanium. But the goal for each port was close to 100% source code compatibility, even for VAX MACRO asm.
This is easy for me to say in retrospect, but I wonder how many fewer years it would've taken for a 64-bit ARM port of OpenVMS instead of the 64-bit x86 port that VSI spent 10 years or however long porting an OS originally written in 32-bit VAX assembly language, then ported to Alpha, then Itanium.
October 19, 2025 at 4:22 AM
This is easy for me to say in retrospect, but I wonder how many fewer years it would've taken for a 64-bit ARM port of OpenVMS instead of the 64-bit x86 port that VSI spent 10 years or however long porting an OS originally written in 32-bit VAX assembly language, then ported to Alpha, then Itanium.
After 47 years, OpenVMS gets a package manager (VSP)
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March 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
After 47 years, OpenVMS gets a package manager (VSP)
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It is the UNIXTree they looks so nice it is the OpenVMS Operating environment that Windows is.
June 9, 2025 at 2:24 AM
It is the UNIXTree they looks so nice it is the OpenVMS Operating environment that Windows is.
Letting OpenVMS ftp environment copy to the root.
June 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Letting OpenVMS ftp environment copy to the root.
NCSA Mosaic – an Internet information browser and World Wide Web client. NCSA Mosaic was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. archiveapp.org/ncsa-mosaic/ #webbrowser #amigaos #macos #unix #os2 #windows #openvms
NCSA Mosaic
Web site: ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/ (not active) Category: Network Subcategory: Web browsers Platform: AmigaOS, Mac OS, Unix, OS/2, Windows, OpenVMS License: Proprietary Interface: GUI…
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November 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM
NCSA Mosaic – an Internet information browser and World Wide Web client. NCSA Mosaic was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. archiveapp.org/ncsa-mosaic/ #webbrowser #amigaos #macos #unix #os2 #windows #openvms
I was running OpenVMS system at the time and wasn't worried (correctlyas it urned out) but I earned a decent packet out of all the frenzy but then the VMS job market disappeared in 2001:-(
“Y2K looks like a joke now…”. text.npr.org/2024/12/28/n...
FFS. Impact was only contained and minimised because a LOT of people worked VERY HARD to fix as many things as we could before the deadline. And even then we weren’t always sure we’d fixed the right things in time.
FFS. Impact was only contained and minimised because a LOT of people worked VERY HARD to fix as many things as we could before the deadline. And even then we weren’t always sure we’d fixed the right things in time.
Y2K seems like a joke now, but in 1999 people were really freaking out
text.npr.org
January 12, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I was running OpenVMS system at the time and wasn't worried (correctlyas it urned out) but I earned a decent packet out of all the frenzy but then the VMS job market disappeared in 2001:-(
BTW, the uptimes of Unix-based systems don't even hold a candle to OpenVMS (an operating system that's equally foreign to both Linux and Windows users). There are servers that've been running for *literally decades*, and this reliability is why VMS is still in use in 2025…
March 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
BTW, the uptimes of Unix-based systems don't even hold a candle to OpenVMS (an operating system that's equally foreign to both Linux and Windows users). There are servers that've been running for *literally decades*, and this reliability is why VMS is still in use in 2025…
If you’re really aiming for max RAS, you can do something almost like RAID mirroring for RAM as well as processes. OpenVMS had that too, and it’s still out there.
March 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
If you’re really aiming for max RAS, you can do something almost like RAID mirroring for RAM as well as processes. OpenVMS had that too, and it’s still out there.
lol sure you did kid
now read the text in the GIF that clearly says "Can't remove [file path], access denied"
do you know what "access denied" means? I bet you think hacking works like it does in Fallout and have no idea what OpenVMS is, you can't tell the difference between BASH and Python code
now read the text in the GIF that clearly says "Can't remove [file path], access denied"
do you know what "access denied" means? I bet you think hacking works like it does in Fallout and have no idea what OpenVMS is, you can't tell the difference between BASH and Python code
August 5, 2025 at 6:19 AM
lol sure you did kid
now read the text in the GIF that clearly says "Can't remove [file path], access denied"
do you know what "access denied" means? I bet you think hacking works like it does in Fallout and have no idea what OpenVMS is, you can't tell the difference between BASH and Python code
now read the text in the GIF that clearly says "Can't remove [file path], access denied"
do you know what "access denied" means? I bet you think hacking works like it does in Fallout and have no idea what OpenVMS is, you can't tell the difference between BASH and Python code
That's one of the most modern systems on here.
The usual list is: 211bsd, v7 Unix, RSX-11M+, Multics MR12.8, TOPS-20, TOPS-10, ITS, 4.3bsd, OpenVMS 7.3, VM/370r6. So 10 rather than 11.
211bsd is basically modern; most of 43bsd but still runs on a split I/D PDP-11.
The usual list is: 211bsd, v7 Unix, RSX-11M+, Multics MR12.8, TOPS-20, TOPS-10, ITS, 4.3bsd, OpenVMS 7.3, VM/370r6. So 10 rather than 11.
211bsd is basically modern; most of 43bsd but still runs on a split I/D PDP-11.
December 1, 2024 at 5:58 PM
That's one of the most modern systems on here.
The usual list is: 211bsd, v7 Unix, RSX-11M+, Multics MR12.8, TOPS-20, TOPS-10, ITS, 4.3bsd, OpenVMS 7.3, VM/370r6. So 10 rather than 11.
211bsd is basically modern; most of 43bsd but still runs on a split I/D PDP-11.
The usual list is: 211bsd, v7 Unix, RSX-11M+, Multics MR12.8, TOPS-20, TOPS-10, ITS, 4.3bsd, OpenVMS 7.3, VM/370r6. So 10 rather than 11.
211bsd is basically modern; most of 43bsd but still runs on a split I/D PDP-11.
(Not-so-)OpenVMS? Man, that takes me back. Doing stuff with working storage of 128KB, etc.
You'd have big costs writing integration layers to it, resistance from younger staff to being trained on it, would be my guess. Not sure you're factoring this in, maybe your management gripes for a reason
You'd have big costs writing integration layers to it, resistance from younger staff to being trained on it, would be my guess. Not sure you're factoring this in, maybe your management gripes for a reason
June 9, 2025 at 5:02 AM
(Not-so-)OpenVMS? Man, that takes me back. Doing stuff with working storage of 128KB, etc.
You'd have big costs writing integration layers to it, resistance from younger staff to being trained on it, would be my guess. Not sure you're factoring this in, maybe your management gripes for a reason
You'd have big costs writing integration layers to it, resistance from younger staff to being trained on it, would be my guess. Not sure you're factoring this in, maybe your management gripes for a reason
Without Open, I found nothing. I can't say for sure the results are better for OpenVMS than any other VMS.
December 4, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Without Open, I found nothing. I can't say for sure the results are better for OpenVMS than any other VMS.
sitting outside on my laptop, looking at operating systems. Currently thinking setting up some VMs running OpenVMS, Plan9 and Haiku.
OR
I could do something productive.
hmmmmm
OR
I could do something productive.
hmmmmm
June 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
sitting outside on my laptop, looking at operating systems. Currently thinking setting up some VMs running OpenVMS, Plan9 and Haiku.
OR
I could do something productive.
hmmmmm
OR
I could do something productive.
hmmmmm
#openvms is really my #Plan9 (although I plan on playing with plan 9...that was so alliterative. I'm awesome). But VMS measures it's uptime in DECADES. Longest running VMS cluster was 17 years. But it's one of those OSes like Plan9 that needs a modern killer app. I mean VMS has a larger user […]
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September 3, 2025 at 4:50 AM
@microsoft.com it is a PDP-7, HP 9000, VAXstation, HP Blade Server OpenVMS for x86, and Microsoft Windows for ARM64
June 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
@microsoft.com it is a PDP-7, HP 9000, VAXstation, HP Blade Server OpenVMS for x86, and Microsoft Windows for ARM64
It's funny to me that OpenVMS on the VAX was so influential with its DEC compiler suite that every Fortran compiler I've seen has multiple VMS compatibility options, to enable additional data types, I/O commands, and the ability to use "_" and "$" in identifiers. VMS uses "$" a lot in identifiers.
November 1, 2025 at 2:33 AM
It's funny to me that OpenVMS on the VAX was so influential with its DEC compiler suite that every Fortran compiler I've seen has multiple VMS compatibility options, to enable additional data types, I/O commands, and the ability to use "_" and "$" in identifiers. VMS uses "$" a lot in identifiers.
OpenVMS on Alpha, it's like something out of a fever dream but I swear it was real.
December 3, 2024 at 9:33 PM
OpenVMS on Alpha, it's like something out of a fever dream but I swear it was real.
Common Desktop Environment
https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment
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El '''Common Desktop Environment''' ('''CDE''') és un [[entorn d'escriptori]] per a [[Unix]] i [[OpenVMS]], basat en el giny [[Motif]] per al [[sistema de finestres]] [[X …
https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment
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El '''Common Desktop Environment''' ('''CDE''') és un [[entorn d'escriptori]] per a [[Unix]] i [[OpenVMS]], basat en el giny [[Motif]] per al [[sistema de finestres]] [[X …
January 29, 2024 at 5:00 AM
Common Desktop Environment
https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment
Allman: Afegint llicència i referències
El '''Common Desktop Environment''' ('''CDE''') és un [[entorn d'escriptori]] per a [[Unix]] i [[OpenVMS]], basat en el giny [[Motif]] per al [[sistema de finestres]] [[X …
https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment
Allman: Afegint llicència i referències
El '''Common Desktop Environment''' ('''CDE''') és un [[entorn d'escriptori]] per a [[Unix]] i [[OpenVMS]], basat en el giny [[Motif]] per al [[sistema de finestres]] [[X …
Okay, now that I have scratched my clean freakiness because I love nice, tidy, fresh things, I am going to slather myself down with Icy Hot, have some delicious FDC coffee in my french press, and MOAR OPENVMS! :D
September 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Okay, now that I have scratched my clean freakiness because I love nice, tidy, fresh things, I am going to slather myself down with Icy Hot, have some delicious FDC coffee in my french press, and MOAR OPENVMS! :D