I started working on Stratus machines right out of high school... They took me from backwoods New England to Wall St.

The were Awesome machines - don't let those filthy hobbitsis...err..tandem users cloud your judgement. Stratus was pure hardware FT, and tandem... wasn't :-P

Vos was pretty nice too - decent macro language - not all the utils you expect with a unix box, but in terms of the core OS and shell it was pretty good machine .. 40 years later I still love those machines and the career they helped get me into :-D

I spent six months programming on VOS after a gig on a VAX. Yes, I'll be outside telling the kids to get off my lawn as soon as I find my reading glasses and have a nap.

VOS was intuitive and did what I needed. Nothing flashy. Just useful. I miss that sometimes. Give me a tool that works; if it also happens to be great, lovely.

I didn't work much with the Stratus hardware, but reading about it was fascinating. I wish I remembered more of it.

Hey, I worked there in high school as an intern! But just on the intranet, which for its time (‘96?) was really quite good.

Oh Tandem, you don’t hear that much anymore. They still have plenty of them still running banks and what not under the name HP non-stop.