Happy birthday!
Celebrating 30 years of OpenVMS
Happy 30th birthday, OpenVMS! It was 30 years ago today that VMS v1.0 shipped to the first paying customers on the VAX 11/780. Today, HP is shipping v8.3 on the third family of processors to support OpenVMS, the Intel Itanium, and continues to plan for future releases well into the future.
HP has created this special website to commemorate this anniversary. Pat Thibodeau of ComputerWorld has written another OpenVMS article, HP tries to assure OpenVMS users that OS still has a future that I was interviewed for, but I presume the outlook I expressed was too bland and too positive to be used to draw in readers.
I had just turned 20 and was still in college. I remember all the buzz in Kingsbury Hall at the time about the "new computer" that we were getting! (And I was curious why we would be losing 4 bits -- wasn't that a step backwards?) However, it would be another half dozen years before I got to touch my first VMS box, and that would be my own 11/750 at Boeing Flight Test, running VMS v3.4, IIRC.
So, happy birthday, OpenVMS. The first 30 are just the beginning!
Update: Pat Thibodeau's written a second article, this one printed on November 5, "OpenVMS Still Has Road Ahead Of It, HP Says", does quote me.
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