[Info-vax] FMS and Datatrieve

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On May 20, 2:34 pm, Johnny Billquist <b... at softjar.se> wrote:
> On 2011-05-20 11.32, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>
> > On 2011-05-20 09.39, JF Mezei wrote:
> >> FMS (and ALLIN1) are in in maintenance mode.
>
> >> FMS was to be EOLed at the VAX-Alpha transition, but the announcement
> >> that ALLIN1 was to be ported to Alpha forced Digital to port to FMS too,
> >> but it has been in maintenance mode since. There was one new release and
> >> a couple of patches I think since the early 1990s.
>
> > Wasn't FMS supposed to be replaced by a new product, that did what FMS
> > do, and more? I can't remember the name of it...
>
> Wasn't it DECforms?
>
>         Johnny

IIRC DecForms was intended to replace both FMS and TDMS and
consolidated the functions of both (sort of...)

Dan