Just a little note about this OS. As a fan of DEC and vintage emulation, I was excited to hear about OpenVMS. I actually contacted a recruiter out of college specifically to get a job working on a DEC PDP 11/70 hopefully running RSTS/E, but not a requirement. However that is what I was familiar with from college. I chose this recruiter because I noticed that she frequently posted DEC jobs. This was way before the Internet and using a recruiter was common. A short while later, I got a job with a company that had two 11/70s running RSTS/E and was very happy. After a few years we outgrew the PDPs and being a DEC shop, I was hopeful we might migrate to a DEC VAX. However the head of the department with a banking and mainframe background decided on IBM. Which probably was the best choice for the company. Especially considering we dealt with a lot of EBCDIC data tape files from big companies. I went on to have a good career with IBM mainframes. Most of my schooling was on IBM mainframes so the transition wasn’t hard for me.
But I remained a fan of DEC. However I will probably never get to play with OpenVMS, because of their registration system. As I understand it…and I could be wrong, they have to bless you with the privilege of using their OS. You have to join and contribute to this or that. I would like to learn OpenVMS, but I’m not a joiner. And the whole idea of them evaluating me to see if I’m worthy of their precious OS doesn’t sit well with me.
Even if I was young, I would most likely have a hard time today working in the computer industry because of all the emphasis in teamwork. If you work for a company you will always in some regard be part of a team. But in my day I along with other programmers would get an assignment and basically work on it all by our lonesome…until it was done.
I can and do run RSTS/E or MVS under emulation, just because I want to. I’m not required to explain why I am interested…to be allowed the privilege.
it’s slightly disappointing however it’s not like I was going to get a job using OpenVMS. And there are always plenty of other new things to learn in computers.
It really was fun learning MVS then seeing how close it still is to the latest top IBM OS…Z/OS. My professional IBM background was with DOS and VM not MVS. However my schooling going on almost 50 years ago was with MVT. As a testament to IBM a lot of the utilities that I ran in school still run today under Z/OS.