> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Allain [mailto:allain_at_panix.com]
> Start? Let's see...
> First VMS is renamed to OpenVMS.
> Then the entirety of digital is bought out.
> Then the VAX line is discontinued.
> Then the Alpha Chip is discontinued.
> (think this is the chronology. corrections?)
Some of the above is more worrying than the rest. It would be interesting,
though, to see what would have happened to VAX had it not been discontinued.
Perhaps a VAX implementation over an Alpha core, along the lines of recent
intel chips.
> All joking aside, if PDP/RSTS is still alive,
> as I think was said on this list, then add at least
http://www.mentec.com/
They seem to make quite a bit of cash from the PDP stuff still.
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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