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

["Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer)"]

Le 24/12/2013 18:13, JF Mezei a écrit :
> 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.
>
I agree on all this story.

But I go on thinking the noport on Poulson is a bug. Not a big bug, just 
some insignificant mistake on a negligible sector.

I think it is some unecessary euthanasia for an ill man who was dying 
with no pain.

The funny thing is this relative little bug can become some desaster. 
The event could reveal your conclusion about the "no-HP" and a lot of 
peolple could see that "le roi est nu".

There is some energy we can collect in that "euthanasia saga", and we 
have to thank for this paradoxal (a)wake.

(I dedicate this new rethoric song to all my fans :=), in this greeting 
season ; happy new year ).

Gérard Calliet