[Info-vax] Unix on A DEC Vax?

Howard S Shubs howard at shubs.net
Fri Jan 18 19:07:11 EST 2013


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

> 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.

Their own, too.  MPE is no longer supported.  HP-UX is in the same boat 
as VMS as regards porting to a new processor.

The only operating system which seems to have a serious future is Linux.

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