[Info-vax] DECnet for Solaris

[Michael Kraemer]

ChrisQ schrieb:

> 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.

No wonder. After having swallowed Apollo, HP sold their workstations
labelled "HP Apollo" but running (mostly) HP-UX. The true Apollos
ran DomainOS, a Unixoid.

> Contrast that with tru64, which really did seem like a standard unix,

There's no such thing as a "standard Unix".
All major Unices follow the usual certifications,
everything beyond is purely personal taste.

> 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.

Like, for example, running after those stupid PAKs,
just to be able to login as a simple user?
Not as weird as with VMS, but still annoying when
compared to the others.

> 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, 

I see another conspiracy theory coming down the line ...
What's so unusal about fading memories of a company that ceased
to exist more than a decade ago? Happens all the time in industry,
DEC is no exception.

> whether out of nih, spite or 
> the fact that Alpha
> was starting to be seen as a serious threat.

To whom should it have been be a "serious threat"?
x86 outsold it by a factor of a 100 (maybe even 300),
and economically it couldn't even compete with
the Itanics.

> 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), 

If it was so "robust", why did it cease to exist?