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Hi. Author here.

It's not all historical stuff by any means; in fact, I tried to skew it towards stuff from the recent or modern era and things that are still in maintenance, still being worked on, or actively sold.

And, yes, I did consider VMS, but the article was getting too long already and while BLISS does qualify, it's also relatively obscure. Maybe I made the wrong call there: it's in current use, on sale, and about to become generally available on x86-64. Ah, well.



Google sea that openvms is still used. Talk about inertia…


"Google sea"?

VMS is alive, well, and about to ship a new version.

https://vmssoftware.com/about/openvmsv9-1/

It is exceptionally solid, it has the best clustering ever invented for any OS in history, and above all: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.


Great job, thanks. I’ve been around awhile, but I’d not heard of about a third of those systems.


Oh cool! Thank you!




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