[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Dave Froble]

On 1/8/2024 3:16 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Dan Cross <cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> LOL Always thought HP-UX was a bit weird, but it's the result of buying
>>> another unix ws vendor, whose name forget. Like some i-other unix ws
>>> vendors in the early days, the overall structure and shell commands
>>> hadn't settled down to a common core...
>>
>> 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.
>
> It wasn't even a little bit Unix, but it was very cool, and it offered a
> real distributed environment on workstations years before anyone else even
> thought about it.
>
>> Over time, HP ditched the underlying OS and went with their
>> System V derivative instead.
>
> It wasn't so much over time, it was kind of abrupt.  There were a few years
> where you could buy an 700 with either HP-UX or Domain, but they really started
> pushing HP-UX from the beginning.  I don't think anyone at HP had any clue
> what Domain really was or how to sell it.
> --scott
>

Did they have any clue about what VMS was, or how to sell it?

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