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VAX Notes. Perhaps the original groupware. Not really useful without collaborators any more, since DEC is dead and took that cultural fork with it.

See https://thoughtsofanidlemind.com/2012/12/14/vax-notes/

and the referenced paper

https://thoughtsofanidlemind.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/...

I believe the point of VMS is to run boring software as reliably as possible. Train-ticketing backends, air-traffic control, warehouse management etc.

It's interesting to see how little effort it takes to keep stuff running.

I used to work for a health informatics company and our department level systems ran on OpenVMS. Radiology management, pharmacy management, etc.

Moria (now Angband) was originally on VMS, written in VAX Pascal.

We remember it well because it was distributed as a single, large file, and our 11/730 just choked and died trying to compile it.

The MicroVAX was much better at coping with it.

I always played Rogue and Trek on the VAX when I had to go in with my mom when she worked weekends.

VMS-empire ;)

http://www.catb.org/~esr/vms-empire/

talk? maybe ytalk?

I still miss bitnet.

It's still here (HNET) ;)

https://moshix.dynu.net/

https://github.com/moshix/BITNETServices