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Comment #14812852
It was originally a DEC specific design copied/stolen by others. DEC created the design concept of a common back plane. Other than some logic switches to control power/enabling, th…

Thu, Jul 20, 2017, 2:40 PM UTC
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Comment #14812808
It takes a minimum of 7 years to design from scratch, develop, test then settle in a "simple" customized order and inventory processing system, sans a WMS and picking component. Th…

Thu, Jul 20, 2017, 2:35 PM UTC
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Comment #14812627
To some extent this is true. One, used to be Fortune 50 but now probably not even Fortune 1000 famous corporation has been "going to replace TOLAS on OpenVMS" for the past 20+ year…

Thu, Jul 20, 2017, 2:18 PM UTC
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Comment #14812467
Adding more OpenSource to OpenVMS is __NOT__ a good thing. Especially adding it at the compiler level. Moving to a common back end, especially for BASIC, would be a truly wretched …

Thu, Jul 20, 2017, 1:58 PM UTC
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Comment #14812377
For those who have never heard of OpenVMS they might want to get themselves a copy of this book: http://theminimumyouneedtoknow.com/app_book.html VMS was the OS of choice when it p…

Thu, Jul 20, 2017, 1:48 PM UTC