Quote Originally Posted by PaulP38a View Post
Nice to hear that there are still some VAX's (or VAXen as we ex-DIGITs used to call them) in production. They were a great machine and IMHO VMS and OpenVMS was way ahead of its time. True clustering with a Distributed Locking Manager that UNIX systems are only now cacthing up with. True 64-bit processing in the early 1990's. The Micro-code of VMS was even found in early releases of Windows NT - that's how much Microsoft liked it, so they "borrowed" some of DIGITAL's IP. Shame that Windows was never as fast or stable as VMS, even still. Don't get me started on the whole DECnet versus TCP/IP debate - a bit like BetaCam versus VHS I suppose.

I was a VMS systems manager for a few years and then a consultant for DEC on VMS and PathWorks (LANMAN and NetWare) before getting dragged in to the Windows/UNIX consulting world. I loved my work so much I kept a couple of MicroVAX's at home for testing purposes - they were also handy as heaters during Winter
What debate? There was DECnet and then there was the others
Pathworks... those were the days... lots of agony, then they got it working only to wreck it again.

My first home PC was an VAX 11/725 + 2xRA80 and a TS05. You had to power off house hold items - like the fridge and freezer - to be able to run it.