[Info-vax] Unix on A DEC Vax?

[David Froble]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> 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.
> 

For a VMS user, there can be no bigger disadvantage than what HP is 
doing to VMS.  Not developing it.  Not allowing others to do so either.