[Simh] HP/UX

Ray Jewhurst raywjewhurst at gmail.com
Mon Oct 10 19:18:42 EDT 2016


Clem do you have any  links or configs so others can play with Unix v0?

On Oct 10, 2016 7:16 PM, "Clem cole" <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

> Yes. I very much aware. A number of my friends and former coworkers are
> over there.
>
> Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not
> quite.
>
> On Oct 10, 2016, at 5:37 PM, Jeremy Begg <jeremy at vsm.com.au> wrote:
>
> Hi Clem,
>
> Somewhat off-thread but I felt the need to reply ...
>
> On 11 Oct 2016, at 1:12 am, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
> ...
>
> Also be careful about HP being "generous" with the old DEC technology,
> such as OpenVMS.    That was started before HP became the owners.
> Fortunately, HP (and I assume now HPE) has continued it.   We can only hope
> the desire is not lost, but the farther we go away from the source of those
> decisions, the less ability to get them continued - although hard for them
> to "take away" as so many hobbyist licenses are in the wild.
>
>
> I agree 100% with your comments re the "generosity" of HP.  Despite the
> intentions of some within HP, OpenVMS development continued (in a limited
> way), and a new business - not part of HP - has taken up the reigns.
>
> VMS Software Inc., based in Bolton MA, has produced 3 releases of OpenVMS
> for Itanium and one for Alpha in the last 18 (?) months and is now working
> on porting OpenVMS to the x86 architecture.
>
> The OpenVMS roadmap can be found on their website www.vmssoftware.com.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeremy Begg
>
>
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