UNIX V7

The finger points to me? I never said VMS is dead - if I did, please point it out and acknowledge. I did say VMS is a "sinking ship". Not only is the market share tiny and shrinking, but its installation base (number of machines running VMS in production) is also shrinking. There are pretty much no new VMS customers. VMS is speeding along to being insignificant. And yes, OS/400, VM, MVS (yes, keeping the old names here) are also sinking ships for much the same reason, although they are still viable products. Yes, they are important, and are still cutting edge, but the truth is still that there will be a day in the future when these OSes are in the same league as MCP or TOPS-20. Hopefully that day will be long off. Here is a challenge to the whole list membership. Lots of folks here are well embedded into the industry, so I think this is a good sample. Try to think of as many new customers (not upgrades) for the following OSes (again, keeping the old names): AOS/VS, MCP, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, OS/2200, VM, MVS, VSE, OS/400, Multics, PrimOS. Lets keep this to year 2009. I bet we can not even get to twenty. -- Will