[Info-vax] Comment on the future of OpenVMS

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <0061faa7$0$26909$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
	JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>
> Sorry to dash your hopes, but VMS will remain with HP until it is small
> enough to be sold off to some small outfit, just like PDP11 stuff had
> been sold off to mentec. And it will be a couple more years before it
> happens.

You say that like it is somehow a bad thing.  Mentec not only maintained
but also developed both the OSes and the CPU of the PDP-11 family until
long after the VAX was dead.  Support stopped a little over a year ago.
VMS would be very lucky to find someone like that to buy it.  If, of course,
it was even for sale.

bill


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