[Info-vax] Unix on A DEC Vax?

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <kdbmft$hui$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble
<davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:

> Now, it's easy today to embrace some things such as Unix and Linux 
> because there is not a single entity that can deprecate them the way HP 
> is doing with some (all?) of the former DEC products.  I'm beginning to 
> see that light.  Not saying I like it.  But would such exist today 
> without that which preceded it?  I have my doubts.

Of course, there are disadvantages to this as well: the bag-of-tools 
approach, bottom-up instead of top-down design, different versions of 
stuff.