[Info-vax] DECnet for Solaris

[ChrisQ]

On 10/12/11 18:30, Dennis Grevenstein wrote:

>
> I actually like HP-UX. I think it's only natural that HP keeps its own
> system instead of adapting someone else's. I also don't think HP-UX is
> slower than Tru64. Also remember the hardware. PA-RISC was a fine platform.
> It's a matter of personal liking I guess and what the powers that be spend
> money on ;-)
> I have an old HP J6000 (dual 552MHz, 13GB of RAM) and I am still waiting
> for an Alpha like that in my hobbyist cluster.
>
> Dennis
>

I guess ymmv. My last memories of hp-ux were around the v10.something, 
where nothing
seemed to be in the expected place and there were odd named utilities. 
May have been unix
under the skin, but it didn't seem like it. I kept being reminded of an 
old Apollo w/s
os that I saw at some stage in the dim and distant past.

Contrast that with tru64, which really did seem like a standard unix, 
with all the utils,
libs and headers where you would expect to find them. Very clean, 
straightforward and easy
to get started doing serious work with.

The more I look at the demise of dec, the more it seems like there was a 
concerted
effort to erase all memory of the company, whether out of nih, spite or 
the fact that Alpha
was starting to be seen as a serious threat. Hp have done the same with 
3com now. A fine,
technically robust networking company (I worked for them for a a year or 
two in Hemel), that
has now disappeared without trace. Not a conspiracy theorist at all, but 
speak as you find...

Chris