28 Nov
2000
28 Nov
'00
2:34 p.m.
From: healyzh(a)aracnet.com <healyzh(a)aracnet.com>
merger
> 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 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
No! The Alpha was a year after OpenVMS was started in references.
I was seeingit internally back in '91, the alpha was a bit later. The
OS itself was to change internal and external names much later.
The compaq merger was earlier than 7.2 {time flies when your having fun}.
Allison