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

[Dave Froble]

On 12/1/2018 1:00 PM, Neil Rieck wrote:
> 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
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>> 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.
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> https://research.microsoft.com/~gbell/Digital/DECMuseum.htm
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> 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
>

1) don't care
2) actively dislike

Take your pick

HP and DEC used to be rivals.  Perhaps some HP types think they have 
won, and want to do away with anything DEC.

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