[Info-vax] Moving away from OpenVMS

[Doug Phillips]

On May 22, 1:52 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> Doug Phillips wrote:
> > A little off-topic, maybe, but it isn't hard to see a future without
> > binary computers. If HP were close to their projections we should be
> > seeing memristor memory devices in 2013, and that technology could
> > make binary as obsolete as vacuum tubes ("valves" for the UK folks).
> > Where would you spend your money if you were HP?
>
> You're assuming that Mark Hurd didn't cut that project like he did much
> of the HP R&D.
>

Correct. My suspicion, though, and it's based on the assumption that
MH wasn't completely stupid, is that some of the cuts might have been
made to help the memristor project... at least that would seem the
wise thing to do. Invest R&D money to grow the future. But as another
frequent poster is fond of saying, "I know nothing."

> With HP out of the chip business, what would HP really do with them
> memristors ? HP might do like it did with the rest of its chip business:
> donate it to Intel.

I don't know what HP is doing or will do. Shirley Someone knows,
though, but she ain't talkin' ;-)