[Info-vax] Message from HP.

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In article <bgrbr3Fnkm4U4 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon
<bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu> wrote:

> 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
MTS!


Not really released - so you won't let them count probably :)  - but
never copyrighted and therefor available as source:

TOS/DOS
AFAIR TSS too

OS/360 , MVT and MVS

VM370

-S