Whats this "BackInTheDay" stuff ? ;-) granted we upgraded to openvms at y2k, but the system is still in production. Ive been involved in this app since 93, and it was mature then. Just will not die :-(
-------- Original message -------- From: j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu Date: 07/16/2016 05:55 (GMT-08:00) To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Cc: j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Re: VMS stability back in the day (was Re: NuTek Mac comes) > From: Jonas > At the time VMS was conceived, Unix was a university product, used for > teaching and research, not for heavy production work. Err, not quite. In the mid-70's, the PWB system at Bell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PWB/UNIX was being used by a community of about 1K programmers doing development of software for various Bell commercial projects. Yes, not accounting systems, but not "teaching and research", either. And it was definitely production: see the uptime statistics, etc, in the BSTJ article that describes it. Noel
