[Info-vax] State of the OpenVMS hobbyist program?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 11/21/19 10:33 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 11/21/2019 7:35 AM, seasoned_geek wrote:
>> On Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 12:03:08 PM UTC-6, Bill Gunshannon 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Bitsavers has a lot of it, but I still have quite a bit of paper
>>> documentation for RT-11 and RSTS.
>>>
>> RSTS/E is sexy!
>>
> 
> There was a time when some felt that RSTS should have been ported, or 
> re-implemented, on VAX.  After some work by VMS development in 
> coordination with the RSTS community, that desire faded away.  

Desire fade away from who?  RSTS users or VMS developers?

>                                                               DEC did a 
> good job of giving the RSTS users what we said we needed.  This work 
> gave me great respect for VMS developers.
> 

As I said, RSTS remained in use long after VMS became available.  It
was  only the death of the PDP-11 itself, caused by DEC, regardless
of the number of users still running all of the OSes, that killed it
RSTS.

bill