Vax 4000-60

From: healyzh_at_aracnet.com <(healyzh_at_aracnet.com)>
Date: Tue Nov 28 21:49:13 2000

> The open was added around the time of the compaq merger. the sales and
> other external peripheria started using OpenVMS to counter the idea that
> VMS was a sealed OS, anyone with internals training or a complete knew
> that VMS was as open as could be had without giving the code away.
> The idea had to be sold as really closed OSs were well known then
> (early 90s) as IBM.

Huh? The Open was added around the 6.0/6.1 timeframe. The Compaq merger
was during the 7.2eft timeframe. I'd thought the namechange was a
combination of emphasising it's openess, but largly a reaction to the fact
they now had VMS running on both VAX and Alpha.

                                Zane
Received on Tue Nov 28 2000 - 21:49:13 GMT