Re: Tru64 file system source code now open source

ChrisQ schrieb:

At the time that it was being seriously developed, 5 or more years ago,
it was streets ahead of solaris. In all kinds of ways that made it easier
for the user and administrator. For example, the choice of sysv or bsd
environments, filesystems, device support, networking. Programming, for
example: ansi C compiler bundled with the distribution,

DEC Unices still coming with a C (but not C++) compiler is indeed
a singularity in Unix-Land and of course welcome.
But with modern Unices there's no necessity to recompile the kernel,
so the C-compiler disappeared and has to be ordered as a separate
product. Only HP-UX has a crippled (== useless) cc left to
"build the kernel".

all the headers
and libraries for X etc where you would expect to find them and it was R6,
unlike solaris, where you needed to put loads of links in place to compile X applications.

Don't think so. I never had problems of this kind.
In fact it is HP-UX which doesn't come with X11/Motif headers,
which is quite a nuisance.
In former times you even had to order them separately as
part of a codeword-secured "Developers Toolkit",
nowadays you can at least download them from HP's website.

I only used hp-ux briefly as a user, but remember it being
hard work, with little added value and nothing where you would expect to
find it.

Depends on your expectations.

May be better now, but iirc, hp-ux originally came from the
remains of Apollo Domain,

No. HP-UX has its own roots. Apollo was absorbed by HP
around 1989, and guess what, Domain disappeared soon after.
Sounds familiar ?

which always was a bit odd.

Sure. As is VMS. Domain isn't really Unix, just similar.

Tru64 was written
from the start to be a modern, secure, 3nd generation unix,

But it came way too late, just as Alpha.

> but I
guess it was never a possibility that hp would dump their own product,

no surprise here.


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