Some Life Lessons from VAX/VMS (2013)

HP announced back in June that end-of-support for OpenVMS will be 2020. I've been compiling this blog post since then. I have very fond memories of VAX/VMS... I used one to store my pillow for two years. Funny story. I learned a lot of life lessons from VMS. Originally this was one big 'ol blog post but I decided to break it up so the post wasn't so long. These posts are just a collection of funny VAX/VMS stories from my youth. I really believe that I learned the most in my career from my few years working on VMS. Life Lesson Number 1: you need to have a sense of humor to work in this industry Many people have speculated that HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey was really supposed to be a play-on-words. HAL comes one letter before IBM. I guess that makes it "one better." Mathematically, the equation is...IBM (IBM rot-1) = HAL. The guy who wrote VMS was vehemently anti-IBM and when he ported VMS to WNT, which was the acronym for Windows NT before it was known as Windows NT, it is believed th ... Read full article.