[Info-vax] VMS Features I Wish Linux Had

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <njkfc9$r46$1 at dont-email.me>, "Robert A. Brooks"
<FIRST.LAST at vmssoftware.com> writes: 

> On 6/12/2016 12:40 PM, Hans Vlems wrote:
> > Why do you think the TDMS / DECforms / FMS discussions took place? That's
> > where the user lives and that's where lots of money was spent in application
> > development. No wonder many customers got severely p*d off when TDMS was not
> > ported to Alpha.
> 
> Huh?  TDMS runs on both Alpha and IA64.  While I'm not exactly when TDMS was 
> ported to Alpha, I believe it was the early 90's.

Wasn't it like this: At first there was no port, then it was ported due 
to popular demand?  The same with DECnet Phase IV?