Re: VMS

On 6/13/25 22:15, c186282 wrote:

I've still got my 3-inch (now painfully) small-type VMS
manual.
 This was one of the genius systems - WAY beyond its time.
 If you were, maybe, the Hilton hotel chain and wanted to
keep current with systems world-wide - over SLOW modems -
VMS was set up to do it, even late 70s.
 This was a WELL thought-out operating system.
 Now, alas, somebody BOUGHT all the code and BIOS
stuff. No longer 'free' for development. They will
hold it hostage for the last nickel until it's
utterly obsolete.
 Tragic.
 I still have HOPE there will be a New Linus - someone
who sees the value of the system/approach and writes
an updated work-alike.
 Various corps DO seem to be scheming against Linux.
They somehow want to claim ownership and then
absorb/destroy the system. The increasing M$ content
is part of that scheme. A *FREE* OS - horrors !!!
 Some OTHER capable system is Disaster-Proofing the future.
The other oddball is Plan-9 ... but it was never meant
for 'home/small-biz' computers. They DID get it to
run on the latest IBM mainframes though - there
are celebration videos.
 Yea yea, there are a few other potentials, even
BeOS, but they're just not nearly as capable
as Linux or VMS. Amiga-OS ... sorry, no. Have
less experience with the Control Data systems.
MIGHT be useful.
 Just saying - Linux/BSD is great, but there ARE
people legally conspiring against them. Really
good alts DO need to Be There, SOON.

Keep up with Distrowatch: They reported month ago
that some group is writing a kernel in Rust to go with
a new OS. Sorry but I lost the name of this one.
bliss