[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Scott Dorsey]

Dave Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>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.
>
>Did they have any clue about what VMS was, or how to sell it?

No, but that disaster came years later.  Don't forget about Tandem NonStop either.
--scott
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