Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 23:57:25 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: dg@root.com, Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.technion.ac.il>, pechter@shell.monmouth.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WNT (was: VAXen in FreeBSD (was Re: Women in FreeBSD)) Message-ID: <36C27F55.F9B591BC@softweyr.com> References: <199902091445.GAA04663@implode.root.com> <36C1A9CF.8B744006@softweyr.com> <19990211091938.I71962@freebie.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, 10 February 1999 at 8:46:23 -0700, Wes Peters wrote:
> > David Greenman wrote:
> >> Several other core members also have significant
> >> amounts of VMS in their history. I'm not sure this says anything in
> >> particular, but I think it's interesting nonetheless.
> >
> > I think most of them ended up in VMS jr. -- Winders NT. At least,
> > most of the ones I worked with did. Good riddance to bad rubbish,
> > in most cases. They've almost finished the latest release of their
> > all-seeing, all-knowing security analysis product for NT, a port from
> > my original UNIX version. They were "on the verge" of releasing it
> > when I left the company 4.5 years ago, if that gives you any idea of
> > their level of productivity on NT.
>
> To be fair to DEC and VMS, ISTR that the WNT project had been canned
> at DEC.
I know they were heavily involved in getting 4.0 out the door, but
haven't followed them at all since then. They'd finally slid into
irrelevance. It'll be interesting to see if Compaq actually manages
to revive them, or just puts the final bullet in that old dog.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com
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