[Info-vax] Apparent OpenVMS Documentation URL on HPE.COM

[Neil Rieck]

On Sunday, November 25, 2018 at 3:54:32 PM UTC-5, Bob Gezelter wrote:
> In wandering around the WWW using Google, I noticed the following page:
> 
> https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=a00058693en_us
> 
> To all appearances, the document seems to be a rather long (35 page) list of OpenVMS-related documentation.
> 
> No idea if it is officially supported, but for the moment, useful.
> 
> - Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com

I have always found it troubling that HP/HPE has been deleting files for more that a decade. For example, there used to be a DEC Museum on http://www.openvms.compaq.com/ which featured articles by DEC's Gordon Bell. All that stuff was turfed by HP/HPE.

On the flip side, lots of stuff about PDP and VAX can still be found at Microsoft where Gordon Bell and Dave Cutler are two of many DECies still employed there. I just checked some of my bookmarks and can see that some documents have been moved to Microsoft's cloud but at least they were not deleted.

https://research.microsoft.com/~gbell/Digital/DECMuseum.htm

Now many large companies, including HP and HPE, have their own cloud technology which makes storage really inexpensive. So I am still wondering HP/HPE is deleting stuff. 

Neil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
http://neilrieck.net