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Thomas Fricke (he/his)A Historic Photo: Torvalds and Gates Together When <a href="https://23.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a> met <a href="https://23.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Microsoft</a>: a historic photo of Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates standing side by side for the very first time.<a href="https://linuxiac.com/a-historic-photo-torvalds-and-gates-together/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://linuxiac.com/a-historic-photo-torvalds-and-gates-together/</a>From the hell is freezing department. <a href="https://23.social/tags/azure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#azure</a> would be not existing without Linux.And this fuels also the joke that the relationship between <a href="https://23.social/tags/WNT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WNT</a> and <a href="https://23.social/tags/VMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VMS</a> is the same as between <a href="https://23.social/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IBM</a> and <a href="https://23.social/tags/HAL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HAL</a>.

ExiltoasterHey <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/Chemnitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Chemnitz</a>, <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/Leipzig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Leipzig</a> und Umland Bubble, die IHK Chemnitz hat eine Petition gestartet, welche den weitestgehend zweigleisigen <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/Bahnausbau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bahnausbau</a> und die durchgängige Elektrifizierung der leidgeprüften Strecke <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/RE6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RE6</a> zwischen Chemnitz und Leipzig fordert.Das größte Problem der Bahnstrecke ist ihr größtenteils eingleisiger Ausbau. Wenn Verspätungen auftreten (durch technische Probleme an den Gleisen oder Fahrzeugen oder einer anderen Störung) können diese meist lange nicht wieder aufgeholt werden. Da die Fahrzeuge immer wieder auf sich warten müssen.Deshalb klickt das bitte… ist an den sächsischen Landtag gerichtet<a href="https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/ausbau-bahnstrecke-chemnitz-leipzig-jetzt-sicherstellen" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/ausbau-bahnstrecke-chemnitz-leipzig-jetzt-sicherstellen</a> <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/Bahn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bahn</a> <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/MRB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MRB</a> <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/Transdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Transdev</a> <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/VMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VMS</a> <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/MDV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MDV</a> <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/Mittelsachsen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mittelsachsen</a> <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/LeipzigLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LeipzigLand</a> <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/Burgst%C3%A4dt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Burgstädt</a> <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/Narsdorf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Narsdorf</a> <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/Geithain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Geithain</a> <a href="https://fedifreu.de/tags/BadLausik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BadLausik</a>

gyptazyWhat do you miss in <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/Proxmox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Proxmox</a> or <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/XCPng" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#XCPng</a>? My customers often told me, that when migrating from <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/VMware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VMware</a> based setups, they would miss something like <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/DRS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DRS</a>. As a result I published <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/ProxLB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ProxLB</a> as a load balancer. Now, I do the same for <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/DPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DPM</a> and also some other things. What do you miss or what stops you or your business from switching to Proxmox or XCPng?<a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/virtualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#virtualization</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/hypervisor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hypervisor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cloud</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/vms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vms</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#homelab</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/features" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#features</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coding</a>

ICMIt is a rare day. Rosenkrantz has been resetting to firmware so we bought another VAX 4000-60 to try sort it out and this one is the cleanest we've ever seen.<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/vax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vax</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/vms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vms</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/openvms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#openvms</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vintagecomputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#community</a>

gyptazyProxLB 1.0.7 (an opensource DRS alike solution for <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/Proxmox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Proxmox</a> clusters) is just around the corner!1.0.7 will be the last version before I'm going to publish the new refactored code base in a modern and object oriented way. Version 1.1.0 squashes some more bugs that were postponed on the current code base and makes the overall future handling much easier (including new features).Website: <a href="https://proxlb.de" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://proxlb.de</a> GitHub: <a href="https://lnkd.in/eEZWEU7s" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lnkd.in/eEZWEU7s</a> Blog post: <a href="https://lnkd.in/e5_b6u-A" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lnkd.in/e5_b6u-A</a> Tags: <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/ProxmoxVE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ProxmoxVE</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/DRS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DRS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/Loadbalancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Loadbalancer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/virtualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#virtualization</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/gyptazy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gyptazy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/Proxmox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Proxmox</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/ProxLB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ProxLB</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#homelab</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/enterprise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#enterprise</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/balancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#balancer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/balancing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#balancing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/virtualmachines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#virtualmachines</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/VM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/VMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VMs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/VMware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VMware</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/LXC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LXC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/container" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#container</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/cluster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cluster</a>

Ryan PetersHow many containers/pods are you running on each of your VMs?<a href="https://social.binarydad.com/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfhosted</a> <a href="https://social.binarydad.com/tags/selfhost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfhost</a> <a href="https://social.binarydad.com/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#homelab</a> <a href="https://social.binarydad.com/tags/docker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#docker</a> <a href="https://social.binarydad.com/tags/containers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#containers</a> <a href="https://social.binarydad.com/tags/kubernetes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kubernetes</a> <a href="https://social.binarydad.com/tags/boost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#boost</a> <a href="https://social.binarydad.com/tags/vms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vms</a>

Elias<a href="https://kosmos.social/@raucao" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@raucao</a> Welp.Silver Lining for me personally: One more in a long list of reasons for switching to a frame.work Laptop with <a href="https://kosmos.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a>, <a href="https://kosmos.social/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeBSD</a> & <a href="https://kosmos.social/tags/VMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VMs</a>.That is said by somebody who:Still owns & runs his <a href="https://kosmos.social/tags/Macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Macintosh</a> SE, Has had no need to reinstall OSX from an OG IMac G5 in 2004 until the end of 2024. And is addicted to Icloud since its inception. Of course had the first ever Ipod.Tim fuckt up <a href="https://kosmos.social/tags/BOEING" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BOEING</a> style.<a href="https://kosmos.social/tags/venting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#venting</a>

IT NewsYour VAX in a Cloud is Ready - For many people of a certain age, the DEC VAX was the first computer they ever use... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/01/28/your-vax-in-a-cloud-is-ready/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://hackaday.com/2025/01/28/your-vax-in-a-cloud-is-ready/</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/openvms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#openvms</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/dec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dec</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/vax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vax</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/vms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vms</a>

Si :mastodon: (he/him)I want to create a VM via virt-manager with a minimal debian image on my debian testing host. I want to use it as docker host to test out hosting stuff. I need to install stuff on this VM and i want to reach the vm via ssh and web from my host. Now firewalls and bridging and so on comes into place and then I'm lost :-( <a href="https://norden.social/tags/debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#debian</a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/vms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vms</a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/docker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#docker</a>

servus.atOver the past months we have interviewed some of the people involved in the <a href="https://social.servus.at/tags/ARDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ARDC</a>, a series of <a href="https://social.servus.at/tags/VMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VMs</a> hosted at the servus datacenter; we have also traced the history of <a href="https://social.servus.at/tags/AMRO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AMRO</a>, Art Meets Radical Openness, and the general radical media art context in which <a href="https://social.servus.at/tags/servus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#servus</a>.at was born and still operates.All this material is now collected in a fancy magazine called "Artists Running Data Centers", which we'll get fresh off the press tomorrow and present at STWST on Tuesday, December 17th at 7pm.

futurileI've been using <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/virtiofs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#virtiofs</a> to access the host filesystem in my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/guix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#guix</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kvm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kvm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libvirt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libvirt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VMs</a> - it's very nice. I have it mount the directory automatically in my guix-system definition:(file-system (mount-point "/home/la/workspace") (device "workspace") (type "virtiofs")Guix also supports the 9p filesystem and others.

gyptazy<a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/ProxLB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ProxLB</a> - the <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/LoadBalancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LoadBalancer</a> for <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/Proxmox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Proxmox</a> just got released in version 1.0.5.ProxLB adds features like <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/DRS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DRS</a> from <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/VMware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VMware</a>, node evacuation etc. to Proxmox and is fully <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB</a><a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/broadcom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#broadcom</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/PMX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PMX</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Python</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/virtualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#virtualization</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/VM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/vms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vms</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#homelab</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/enterprise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#enterprise</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#community</a>

Wolfgang StiefDokumentation. <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/onepicaday?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#onepicaday</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/vintagecomputing?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vintagecomputing</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/retrocomputing?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/dec?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dec</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/vms?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vms</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/vcfe23?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vcfe23</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/vcfe2024?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vcfe2024</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/vcfe?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vcfe</a>

gyptazyYou asked for it - you get it! <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/ProxLB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ProxLB</a> now also supports evacuating a <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/Proxmox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Proxmox</a> node by live migrating the VMs to other nodes in the cluster.This is feature in now in main and will be part of release 1.0.4. You can find more about my ProxLB project at: <a href="https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/gyptazy/ProxLB</a><a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/proxmox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#proxmox</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#homelab</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/virtualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#virtualization</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/migration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#migration</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/vmware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vmware</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/broadcom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#broadcom</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/alternatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#alternatives</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/loadbalancing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#loadbalancing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/loadbalancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#loadbalancer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/DRS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DRS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/VM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/VMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VMs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/container" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#container</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/CT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CT</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#foss</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/esxi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#esxi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/tags/kvm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kvm</a>

Ed SWNT=VMS++ case closed!VMS was of course a sophisticated OS for a sophisticated CPU. It just turns out that Unix is simple and portable, and simple is easier to work with (and work on.)So NT was a chance to redo VMS... started within DEC.(Bit of a hot take - I know there's all sorts of considerations.)See also <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41491817" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41491817</a><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/retroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retroComputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/vms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vms</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/rsx11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rsx11</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@lproven" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@lproven</a>

Martin Bishop<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DEC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VMS</a> was a fierce rival to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Unix</a>. In 1988, David Cutler, one of VMS designers, was hired by Microsoft to lead the development of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Windows</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NT</a>. Cutler brought his VMS team with him, interviewed by BYTE in 1993

Martin BishopIn the 1980-ties, during the cold war, US had restrictions on export of computers to the Soviet Union. They nevertheless acquired and cloned VAX/VMS. In response, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DEC</a> engraved in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VAX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VAX</a> chip the following words in Russian: “VAX… when you care enough to steal the very best” <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VMS</a>

Martin Bishop<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VMS</a> is a famous operating system developed by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DEC</a> together with the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VAX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VAX</a> architecture, 1975-1977. VAX hardware and VMS software teams worked closely together to achieve tight integration. The technical leads for VMS development were Dave Cutler, Dick Hustvedt and Peter Lipman

mhdLong shot, but does anyone have something like a style / HCI / best practices guide for mainframe terminal applications? So things you'd see on a 3270 terminal at your travel agency or bank. IBM's ISPF or VMS TDMS, I guess. Never been part of that particular enterprise sector – and don't actually want to – but I often wonder whether I'm missing out on some application patterns that could be used elsewhere, too. <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/vms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vms</a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/ibm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ibm</a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/mainframe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mainframe</a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/terminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#terminal</a>

:debian: 𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚊 :opensuse:Two fucking years later - I STILL have not got a OpenVMS enthusiast licenseAnd I have applied three times.<a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/openvms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#openvms</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/vms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vms</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/givingup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#givingup</a>

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