[Info-vax] What is VMS worth?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-12-04, Subcommandante XDelta <vlf at star.enet.dec.com> wrote:
>
> What is a fair price to offer HP for the full source code and
> documentation, including all VMS engineering internal documentation and
> images of the development and test systems?
>
> Would anyone care to run some numbers?

First, if you want people here to take you seriously, change your
attitude and writing style and pick a grown up alias if you don't wish
to use your real name for some reason.

Second, there's nothing major in the VMS code base which hasn't been
implemented in some form in other environments or doesn't have some other
functional equivalant (if sometimes less elegant) in those other environments.

People have done implementations of the DLM using VMS as a base reference.

There are countless ISAM libraries around.

DCL is nothing to be proud of in the 21st century.

The EDT keypad is available in emacs (I know; I use it daily).

I like the $qio interface, extraction of system state via a API instead of
having to parse command output, and file version support but they are not
something which will be selling points for VMS, because they are noise
level benefits when all the other issues are considered.

Simon.

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