On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Pete French wrote: > Heh. VMS is the original operating system for VAX machines from the late > 1970's. Back in those days machines came with one manufacturer written OS > and everything was proprietary. VMS was an extension of the old PDP-11 > operating system (RSX11?) to support virtual memory, as the VAX was a > virtual address extension onto the pdp architecture.
One of the lead designers of RSX-11M and VMS, David Cutler, went on to head the design team for another well known OS, Windows NT. It's funny that NT was called new technology, when it's design is firmly rooted in pre-unix VMS. _______________________________________________ Xmame mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://toybox.twisted.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/xmame
