floppy disks?

[Liam Proven]

On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 at 02:31, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> VMS stands for Very Much Safer.  It was actually a real Operating
> System, unlike the modern day crap alternatives that masquerade as such.

Well, really it was Virtual Memory System, of course, and VMS is one
of the 2 direct linear ancestors of Windows NT. (The other, now mostly
forgotten, was the original OS/2 v3, the portable version that was not
x86-only.)

Among VMS' ancestors, arguably, were the PDP-11 OSes such as RSTS/E
and RSX-11. They were the inspiration for CP/M, and CP/M was the
inspiration for MS-DOS, and thus Windows 9x.

So it's interesting that 2 different generations of DEC OSes directly
and strongly influenced 2 different generations of MS OSes.

>   Really, how many people run ubuntu clusters, and feel safe doing so?

Well, I do use Linux clusters for work, but I must admit, compared to
the glory days of VAXclusters, they're rather poor, shoddy things.

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