[Info-vax] FreeAXP/Avanti 2.2.0.435 Released

[Paul Sture]

In article <00AC908C.BA9CC436 at SendSpamHere.ORG>,
 VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:

> In article <507f2a2a$0$11361$c3e8da3$50776f34 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei 
> <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> >On 12-10-17 17:10, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> >
> >> I've ported 100s of VAX applications, utilities, drivers, etc. to Alpha.
> >> I've never found anything difficult or impossible, and I never found a 
> >> single bit of VAX software that was not portable.
> >
> >Try porting VAX applications that made use of Message Router callable
> >interface.  Since the later was not ported to Alpha, it becomes prety
> >hard to port your apps to Alpha.
> 
> However, that's not a pure "technical" reason for why an application cannot
> be ported.  That's simply a reliance on a third-party application, utility
> or library that has not been ported.  I'd wager that Message Router *could*
> have been easily ported.

Back to economics again.  Presumably someone somewhere thought it wasn't 
going to provide enough ROI.

IIRC DECnet Phase IV was in line for the chop at one stage, but there 
was enough customer feedback to ensure that didn't happen.

-- 
Paul Sture