[Info-vax] VMS Software Inc. OpenVMS 8.4-1H1 Boots on i4 System

[Norm Raphael]

 > On 03/18/15, JF Mezei<jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
 > 
> On 15-03-18 12:56, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> 
> > What the heck does it matter? Besides of trying to verify some
> > colonialist view on some other countries. Your post has an
> > undertone that doesn't smell very well.
> 
> The location of group is irrelevant, but its mandate is. "India" refers
> to the group that took over from the "Nashua" one.
> 
> HP stopped development of VMS, and handed maintenance over to a group
> whose task was just to maintain it for a few years.
> 
> After they built 8.4, they knew they wouldn't have to build a new
> version again, only issue patches. So code management discipline can
> become a bit more lax when you are handling a dead product.

To quote one Hillary Clinton:  "What difference does it make?"
 
 Norman F. Raphael
"Everything worthwhile eventually 
degenerates into real work." -Murphy