Re: OpenVMS in the media - National Grid Control Centre, Britain from Above, 10/08/08
- From: "Tom Linden" <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:01:31 -0700
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:29:54 -0700, Ashley Shepherd <theinvestigator@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
IMHO, if Ken Olson had the vision to release prior versions of VMS as
open source, we would see VMS everywhere that we now see Unix and
Linux.
I bought a 750 in early 1982, but replaced vms with BSD 4.1 as it was used
for inhouse compiler development. I wrote a letter to KO that spring that
he license VMS sources (we were building a VAX like computer based on the
National chip) suggesting that the 10% or so of VAXes running Unix would soon
be much bigger. Got a response about 2 or so months later declining. Heard
later that the only supportede of the concept was Andy Knowles, who
subsequently left sometime thereafter. I am sure there were plenty of other
people sayoing same thing, so it isn't as if there weren't plenty of signals.
--
PL/I for OpenVMS
www.kednos.com
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