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

[Rich Alderson]

Bob Eager <news0001 at eager.cx> writes:

> 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?

>>> 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...

Digital made the 16- and 32-bit BLISS compilers free in the mid-1990s, making
the announcement in their (monthly?) tabloid.

(When I saw this, I immediately contacted the gent who was helping us[1] gather
 up all the 36-bit software, and got Digital to release BLISS-36 for free as
 well.)

These should be on some CONDIST somewhere, I expect.


[1] us = XKL, Redmond, WA.  We built a KL-10 follow-on PDP-10, the Toad-1, and
    licensed all the 36-bit IP from Digital.  We were the model for the later
    acquisition of the 16-bit IP by Mentec.  Too bad no one at HP knows about
    this.

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