From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pechter@gmail.com (William Pechter) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 09:18:19 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] System Economics (was is Linux "officially branded UNIX") In-Reply-To: <692ffeeb-b279-cfd2-307b-aa8a51c32641@kilonet.net> References: <20170314224547.GB14659@naleco.com> <20170315192815.GA15120@naleco.com> <20170315202723.GG2995@mcvoy.com> <14410fd3-2769-bcc7-740f-3bf54675b03e@kilonet.net> <692ffeeb-b279-cfd2-307b-aa8a51c32641@kilonet.net> Message-ID: <4faa957e-30ee-4c1a-b679-ea475c79f8e5.maildroid@localhost> VMS source fiche was very common of sites owned by large corporations. Their IT staff used it to research bugs... and as sample code for writing their own drivers etc... -----Original Message----- From: Arthur Krewat To: Clem Cole Cc: TUHS main list Sent: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 8:53 Subject: Re: [TUHS] System Economics (was is Linux "officially branded UNIX") On 3/15/2017 8:45 PM, Clem Cole wrote: > Arthur's behavior, I think really proves my point.... you were able > to do that because UNIX was (is) open and was being studies and used > by a lot of people had folks did have access to the source. You did > not see VMS, NT or the like having academic books written about them, > and used as models in OS classes. You would not have been able to do > that with NT or VMS. > Believe it or not, somewhere I believe I have microfiche of VMS 4.0 source code somewhere. Which reminds me, I need to do something with that. It came from the same place as the other source code I have.