[Info-vax] Bradley Manning and OpenVMS

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <52bb3eed$0$61373$c3e8da3$5e5e430d at news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes: 

> On 13-12-25 11:06, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 
> > fantasies, like a mythical port of VMS to x86,
> 
> Oracle documents part of the court propceedings showed that HP did have
> covert projects to looking into porting VMS, NSK and HP-UX to 8086.

This basically means "thinking about".  It doesn't imply that anything 
was actually done.

> Employees involved were strictly forbidden to discuss this because this
> was done at a time where HP was still trying to convince everyone that
> Itanic was not sinking. These projects were abandonned (although for NSK
> appears to have been brought back to life).

Brought back to life, or a completely new project with a similar goal?  
There is a difference.