Um es mal erwähnt zu haben.

Wenn jemand im Bereich OpenVMS sucht: Ich habe diverse Jahre mit OpenVMS gearbeitet. Hochverfügbarkeit, Systemadministration, Softwareentwicklung.

Habe möglicherweise auch noch Kontakte, falls Bedarf für mehr als eine Person besteht. Full Remote bevorzugt.

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Catch of the Day: A Dinosaur on the Web – OpenVMS on a VAXstation! 🦖

Hey Retro Fans!

When we think of retro computing, most of us picture a beige tower PC, a C64, or an Amiga. But yesterday, our bouncer welcomed a true heavyweight from the depths of professional IT history:

VMS_Mosaic 4.0 on OpenVMS V7.3 (VAXstation 4000-VLC)!

Let that user agent sink in for a moment. DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) was once a giant of the computer industry. Their VAX architecture and the accompanying OpenVMS operating system are absolute legends, famous for a level of stability that modern systems can often only dream of.

The VAXstation 4000-VLC ("Very Low Cost") hit the market in the very early 90s—a compact UNIX/VMS machine for professional use. The fact that someone in 2026 fires up this machine, launches the graphical Motif interface, and browses FrogFind using the native VMS_Mosaic browser is absolutely mind-blowing. It proves once again: With the right bridge (and FrogFind!), no architecture is too old for the internet.

A reverent toast to indestructible DEC hardware!

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

A tale from the IT crypt, thanks to another thread on re-inventing grep…

Back in the pre-Y2K era of the NT Affinity boondoggle, a development team was tasked with creating the “DIGITAL OpenVMS Disk Services for Windows NT” (NTDS) remote storage system for Windows NT clients.

Imagine creating an NFS server, and creating NFS clients for Windows NT, all allowing access to a hardware storage pool available on some bigger not-NT server.

This product was being newly created too, so a fairly extensive new-development project split across the server-related development work, and the NT client work.

In one meeting early on, I’d pointed out this was all quite literally re-inventing NFS, and so using an existing (or modified) NFS server could probably speed up the whole product release.

Was told no, the server only accessed arbitrary blocks in one (partition) file on the host, so definitely not at all like NFS.

Okay, but accessing arbitrary blocks in one file is a proper subset of accessing arbitrary blocks in multiple files, right?

Was told no; totally different. But never did get any explanation why NTDS was all so assuredly and totally different from NFS.

🙄

The NTDS project wasn’t a particular success with customers though (and a similar outcome with NT Affinity more generally), so shortening the schedule and saving some development wasn’t a factor in that (un)success.

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I've been playing around with #OpenVMS for the past two days now, and I gotta say, it's pretty cool.

I have had to get over some Unix-isms in order to understand how to navigate the environment, but I think I'm gonna keep this virtual machine I got.

Too bad it's not #FOSS, though about 20 years ago, someone did attempt to re-implement it, called #FreeVMS. I don't think it ever got very far.

That's a shame, because I think a FOSS VMS-like OS would be awesome.