[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Chris Townley]

On 09/01/2024 00:05, Dan Cross wrote:
> In article <unhuvu$1n15b$1 at dont-email.me>, chrisq  <devzero at nospam.com> wrote:
>> On 1/8/24 17:25, Dan Cross wrote:
>>> I believe that you're thinking of Apollo, which had an operating
>>> system called "Domain/OS" (originally "AEGIS") which was not
>>> really Unix, though had a Unix "environment".  It was done from
>>> scratch and more closely resembled Multics in internal
>>> sturcture.
>>
>> Yes, that was it.
>>
>>> Over time, HP ditched the underlying OS and went with their
>>> System V derivative instead.
>>
>> I think it was HP-Ux 10 or so, and even that seemed quite weird
>> in terms of the command set. That was on one of the HP tech
>> computers, 68030 cpu, from memory, with all the peripherals
>> linked by hpib cables. Very capable little machines though, for
>> instrument control work.
> 
> HP-UX 10.0 was around 1995; they merged the server and
> workstation versions of the OS.  They'd been running on System V
> for a long while by that point, though; I didn't realize it, but
> apparently the first version in 1984 was based on System III.
> 
> Poor suckers.  They switched to System V (I'm guessing SVR3) in
> 1985.
> 
>>> An interesting tie-in to DEC was, when HP acquited Compaq, and
>>> thus the DEC IP rights, whether they would wind down HP-UX and
>>> go with Tru64 as their Unix offering (or the other way around).
>>> Too bad that HP-UX is the one still standing.  :-(
>>
>> Shame they backed the wrong horse. Tru64 may have been a bit
>> unpolished round the edges, but a far more straightforward
>> os to work with than Hp-Ux. Just needed a bit more work to
>> finish the job...
> 
> Yes.  Tru64 was one of the best of the commerical Unixes.  I
> wish it had had a better run.
> 
> 	- Dan C.
> 

I started on Tru64 in '97, then we moved to HPUx in the 00's. Horrible, 
but at least I started using RHEL with bash, or ksh if I was writing 
scripts, for other systems. Still on VMS till 2013 happily

-- 
Chris