[Info-vax] VMS porting (again), was: Re: CPython has removed OpenVMS support

[JF Mezei]

Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer) wrote:

> It is a major difference between VP HP and us : they don't just have 
> common sense.


Bob GQ Palmer didn't have common sense. And he was at Digital.
Curly Capelas was jut there to sell the company.
La Carly was just there for the glory and the corp jet
Hurd was just there to make cuts left and right, not to build a company.
Apotheker was just there.

Whitman inherited all of this. By the time she got in. VMS was already
too small to cost jutify a port away from the sinking Itanic.



It can be argued that it is common sense for Whitman to shut down those
parts that have been wounded beyond repair by her predecessors.

NSK is thr troubling part beause obviously someone managed to convince
HP to reverse its death sentence and port NSK to the 8086. Coud this
have been done to VMS ?

But even if ported to 8086, VMS would still be ancient with last real
development about 10 years ago with 8.3. And it still need new file
system etc etc.

To us, VMS means a career, skillsets. It was almost a living being. So
it is really hard to let go. To HP, it was an undesirable side effect of
La Carly's purchase of Compaq. It is just a product which can be
replaced by another, just as they replace one inkjet printer with another.

HP has no history anymore. They are a faceless corporation making
widgets. The company shares ho heritage with the original HP company,
execpt for the calculators which I thnk HP still has.