15 Jul
2019
15 Jul
'19
10:06 a.m.
On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 1:17 PM John H. Reinhardt <
johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org> wrote:
On 7/5/2019 1:57 PM, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
OpenVMS source is/was available for a
price. The price was *somewhat*
lower if you were an employee. As I was of HP between 2006 and 2008. One
of the last things I did when I knew I was being laid off on 31-Dec-2008
was order from internal sources a bunch of OpenVMS CD sets. I got VAX
V7.3, AXP V8.2, V8.3, IA64 V8.2 and V8.3 source sets. Cost me under $200
and I ordered a few other bits and pieces along with. I imagine if you
were non-HP/Compaq/DEC then the prices were much, much higher. I wish I
had been around when V8.4 came out but I wasn't. I had a line on someone
that had the V8.4 but it fell through.
There is a great tool for processing those listings called CVTLIS. Written
by Hunter Goatley at Process Software. You can find it here:
http://vms.process.com/scripts/fileserv/fileserv_search.exe?package=cvtlis&…
I'm pretty sure I made some changes to my local copy that recognises Compaq
and HP C. Nothing major, just names.
Regards, Tim.
At one point, I do remember seeing certain VMS sources, but I don't
recall the
context. It might have been when I was still with DEC. I guess
you can't even threaten to pay them to get any, huh? Bummer...