[Info-vax] Message from HP.

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <52a83521$0$22387$c3e8da3$f6268168 at news.astraweb.com>,
	JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> On 13-12-10 21:10, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 
>> Name one proprietary, commercial OS that has been released to the
>> world in source?  No. CP/M doesn't meet that definition.
> 
> Palm OS (or whatever it was called), released to public domain after HP
> abandonned plans to go mobile.

I said real OSes.  Palm's were glorified toys.  I can't believe that
people who think Windows is a glorified game controller wold even give
PalmOS/WebOS a second look.

> 
> Also, Apple makes the "Darwin" Unix open source, it is a glorified
> FreeBSD with lots of Apple add-ons (but without the apple gui).

Nothing derived from BSD is commerical proprietary.

Try looking back in history to any OSes that would have been used like
VMS was used.  Name one that you can get the source to today.

Primos -- DOS/E (IBM) -- RSTS -- RT-11 -- RSX -- IAS -- MVS -- VM-CMS
EXEC-8 -- RDOS -- AOS/VS -- GCOS -- DPS

And the list goes on.  Which one's are available today in source?

bill


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