HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing

On 11/03/2020 21:24, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: Yup. Parts of the DEC Networking group got sold to Cabletron and then bits transitioned to Riverstone. Later VAX/PSI code made it as far as the US engineering team (who by then were part of EDS iirc). I don't know whether a copy of the DECnis code stayed with DEC - the copy with Riverstone wouldn't have gone any further (there were big layoffs involved so I doubt that anyone was checking that nothing vanished). More or less the same will be true for the Riverstone code. Some of it may have survived the fire sale a few years later but I suspect tracking any of that down might be hard to impossible. The code I wrote at BlueARC is still going at Hitachi Vantara but the long-dead Si7500 code may no longer be on anyone's disks there. It was preserved on a set of DVD-ROMs (as part of the regular backup regimen) but the guy who handled that has left and there is probably little incentive to make sure it hasn't slipped through the cracks. At least in the open source world (where I now work) most things are in a github repo. Admittedly those things do vanish every now and then but at least you have the chance to grab something now if you think it will be useful. Although given how interconnected things are these days, building something in 2030 that last built on today's Ubuntu 19.10 (or whatever) may require more effort than you think it is worth ... but at least you'll have the source code. Antonio -- Antonio Carlini antonio at acarlini.com