[Info-vax] Reimplementing VMS, was: Re: HP adds OpenVMS Mature Product Support beyond the end of Standard Support

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2014-02-04 20:13, JF Mezei wrote:
> On 14-02-04 21:33, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>
>> You are a kook. This is not about the (obvious) HP killing VMS, but
>> about your conspiracy theories that VMS was somehow, somewhat ported to
>> x86 and then buried.
>
>
> Ahh, how convenient it is to exagerate to make a statement look like a
> conspiracy theory.
>
> Stating that a project to evaluate feasability and cost of porting VMS
> to x86, after which a formal project was never started   is not the same
> as your stating a port was done and buried.
>
> Testing feasability might have involved some test code (or not). It
> might have gone as far as a preliminary boot (or not). But even if it
> did, it doesn't make an OS ported. Anything beyond what was necessary to
> answer a question from top management "can it be done, and if so, how
> many man hours required" would have been beyond the scope of the request.
>
> But since your goal is to make me look like a kook instead of having a
> constructive conversation, you have to stretch things to make me look
> like a fool.

You are the one making the statements. Not me. Don't place the blame on 
me for what *you* write.
I'm trying to make you stop making the idiotic statements, but you 
constantly do not accept the help I'm trying to offer to make you not 
look like a kook.

And then you have the stomach to say that I'm trying to make you look 
like a kook. Thanks a lot.

The plonking is not far away now...

	Johnny