<story><title>OpenVMS: state of the x86 port</title><url>http://vmssoftware.com/updates_port.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stunthamsterio</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m genuinely looking forward to this. I used VMS back in the 90&amp;#x27;s and loved it as an OS. Clustering, versioned file systems, reasonably well formed error messages; it seemed very civilised.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;d be nice to be able to run it in a VM and see how much I&amp;#x27;ve forgotten. I&amp;#x27;ve got an old workstation in my loft, but haven&amp;#x27;t really got the room to have it setup.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icedchai</author><text>VMS Clustering was very interesting. It was basically baked in to all layers of the OS, if I remember. You could access devices, file systems, users, batch queues, processes, etc. across the cluster. It felt very well designed.</text></comment>
<story><title>OpenVMS: state of the x86 port</title><url>http://vmssoftware.com/updates_port.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stunthamsterio</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m genuinely looking forward to this. I used VMS back in the 90&amp;#x27;s and loved it as an OS. Clustering, versioned file systems, reasonably well formed error messages; it seemed very civilised.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;d be nice to be able to run it in a VM and see how much I&amp;#x27;ve forgotten. I&amp;#x27;ve got an old workstation in my loft, but haven&amp;#x27;t really got the room to have it setup.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CaptainZapp</author><text>HELP is your friend.&lt;p&gt;The VMS help system, while far less verbose than Unix man pages was, thanks to its hierarchical organisation really, well, helpful.</text></comment>