VMS stability back in the day (was Re: NuTek Mac comes)

Whats this "BackInTheDay" stuff ? ;-) ?granted we upgraded to openvms at y2k, but the system ?is still in production. ? Ive been involved in this app since 93, and it was mature then. ?Just will not die :-( -------- Original message -------- From: jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu Date: 07/16/2016 05:55 (GMT-08:00) To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Cc: jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Re: VMS stability back in the day (was Re: NuTek Mac comes) ??? > From: Jonas ??? > At the time VMS was conceived, Unix was a university product, used for ??? > teaching and research, not for heavy production work. Err, not quite. In the mid-70's, the PWB system at Bell: ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PWB/UNIX was being used by a community of about 1K programmers doing development of software for various Bell commercial projects. Yes, not accounting systems, but not "teaching and research", either. And it was definitely production: see the uptime statistics, etc, in the BSTJ article that describes it. Noel