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

[Scott Dorsey]

Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>
>Using your arguments above, DEC should have continued selling the PDP-11
>even when there was no longer a viable market for it. However, the market
>changed and so the PDP-11 range was no longer viable for new customers so
>DEC did the right thing and started pushing alternatives to the PDP-11
>(including the VAX) instead.

No, using his arguments, DEC should have opened up the PDP-11 architecture
and formally stated that it was okay for any company to make a clone of the
PDP-11 for anyone who might need one, and that it was okay to run DEC
operating systems on such clones.

Nobody is asking anyone to continue supporting an obsolete system, they are
just asking them to permit users to continue running it and to allow new
users to run it without interference.
--scott

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