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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Clem, > > Somewhat off-thread but I felt the need to reply ... > >> On 11 Oct 2016, at 1:12 am, Clem Cole <[email protected]> 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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