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

[Dave Froble]

On 11/22/2019 6:16 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 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
>

Thank you.  I was beginning to believe that nobody understood what I wrote.

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