[Info-vax] Happy new Year !

[Michael Kraemer]

Bob Koehler schrieb:
> In article <hhra1b$imq$00$1 at news.t-online.com>, Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:
> 
>>The question is what will happen to the hobbyist program
>>once the axe falls.
> 
> 
>    Since hobbyists get no support, why should the end of support for
>    VAX change anything?
>  

Well, I don't know what HP has in mind,
but often enough companies cut off all references
to the past once a product is discontinued.
Maybe to make sure that nobody bothers them again
with such old stuff.
Motorola for example did it with their 88K CPU,
or HP themselves with HP-UX lesser than 11.x.
Try to find online references to Ultrix or DEC OSF/1.
It would have costed almost nothing just to leave
the few 100MB online.
Non-commercial Tru64 disappeared too although it
brought $99.