12 engineers on Hacker News describe using OpenVMS first-hand: 2 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Quickly I realized that never again would I enjoy that sense of mastery that I had felt on earlier machines”
regret · production · jsyjr · 2025-02-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The big leap up from VMS in terms of performant concurrent users for us was when we switched to using a Sequent Symmetry”
regret · production · NikkiA · 2023-10-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I worked on VAX/VMS mostly with FORTRAN and loved the hardware and the DCL (digital command language).”
endorse · production · epalmer · 2016-04-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I think everyone agreed that VAX/VMS was superior though when it came to getting stuff done and leaving it done.”
endorse · production · gouranga · 2012-06-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We had TECO on our DEC VAXes running VMS in the early-mid 1980s.”
neutral · production · SulphurCrested · 2025-04-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We still run VAX VMS in production. Sometimes I run it on SimH.”
neutral · production · chasil · 2024-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we're using one of their devices for an Itanium OpenVMS cluster, it works like a charm”
neutral · production · Kon-Peki · 2023-03-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When I worked on RSX-11M, and later VMS, we did not rely on SCCS because it had no added value.”
neutral · production · bregma · 2021-11-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I remember I was upset when we moved off OpenVMS (because market pressure)”
neutral · production · soco · 2020-09-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we (and hence several of the insurers/brokers we dealt with) used OpenVMS.”
neutral · production · gobusto · 2017-07-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using keyboards and terminals since the early DOS and VMS days.”
neutral · production · xradionut · 2011-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I showed a Microsoft engineer at the Vintage computer festival installing an RDBMS on VMS while four people were playing games”
neutral · personal · ChuckMcM · 2011-10-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?