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VMS will be ready to run on x86 in 2019!

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Or 2018 if you're brave. For now, we have a boot screen! VMS Software Inc (VSI), which became the custodian of the venerable OpenVMS in 2014, is getting close to its Holy Grail of running the OS on x86.…

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Comments (3)

cjcox ·
I thought they were going to wait so long to the point where nobody cares...

err... wait a minute...
penguinist ·
Right, in 1980 VMS was my favorite operating system. Today, not so much.

Still it would be nostalgic, I could set it up to drive my Model 15 Teletype. That would be fun.
gus3 ·
One of our local geeks actually has an Alpha running VMS. Or, as he calls it, "everything AND the kitchen sink!"

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