John Dunlop ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: A thought has just occurred to me..with the demise of the HP e3000, I
: expect the VMS folks are dreading that the Compaq acquisition goes
: through and VMS goes the same way as MPE.
: That is unless they figured that Compaq was going to drop it anyway!
:
Exactly !!

Go lurk in the comp.os.vms newsgroup for a while. There's also some
discussion about Tru64 becoming the basis for the Unix of the merged
HP, because of its more modern architecture.

--Jerry Leslie     (my opinions are strictly my own)

        "OpenVMS is today what Microsoft wants Windows NT v8.0 to be!"
           posted on www.openvms.digital.com on or about Sep 22,1998
                           Quashed on Sep 23,1998
           but saved on ftp://atlas.csd.net/pub/vms100.jpg

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