[Info-vax] vax vms licenses

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-04-17, Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
> Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>>There is no legal replacement. (Unless you want to write your own
>>version of VMS. :-))
>>
>>You can run an older OpenBSD or the current NetBSD on your machines
>>if you wish however.
>
> But!  But!  Whatever happened to "The Future is VAX!  Digital Has It Now!"
> anyway?

What happened is that DEC lost its way in the late 1980s and started
killing things that it should never have killed.

By the time Alpha came around, that gave DEC a temporary stay of
execution, but only a temporary stay of execution.

Simon.

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