[Info-vax] up-and-coming 35th anniversary of VMS / OpenVMS

[Bob Eager]

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:50:58 -0500, Bob Koehler wrote:

> In article <j3lkfm$fs9$1 at speranza.aioe.org>, brendan welch
> <w1lpg at uml.edu> writes:
>> On 8/30/2011 8:30 AM, MG wrote:
>>> On 30-8-2011 14:17, Michael Kraemer wrote:
>>>> Will there be an hp.com left to host it? :-)
>>>
>>> Would you finally be able to rest if it disappeared?
>>>
>>> - MG
>> 
>> I still want "DEC" to give away VMS, the same way AT&T essentially gave
>> away Unix.
> 
>    VMS contains IP not belonging to DEC->Compaq->HP.  You want them to
>    give away something incomplete?
> 
>    IMHO the hobbyist program is a much better route than AT&T's "give
>    away".  We get the whole thing.

Well, nearly. We don't get the source. Mind, not sure how easy it is to 
get a BLISS compiler...



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