[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Sun, 7 Jan 2024 17:07:57 -0000 (UTC), Dan Cross wrote:

> AT&T as a corporate entity never quite got how to do Unix ...

Example: the 7th Edition added a prohibition on using the source code for 
teaching purposes. Which is why the Lions Book had to be officially 
withdrawn (though it continued to circulate via samizdat).

I think this just shows, Unix got popular in spite of its corporate 
owners, rather than because of them.

> People often
> forget that at one point, Microsoft was one of the biggest Unix
> vendors on the planet, with Xenix.

So you see, it wasn’t just AT&T that had no clue what to do with Unix.

> I think this bears on VMS a bit today: VMS actually has some
> really interesting technology in it ...

I’m not sure there is anything left worth resurrecting. Certainly not RMS, 
for a start. DCL? No way. Async QIO? Linux has liburing for that, now.