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Re: Proprietary Systems...

> | I don't know if VMS is dead, I think its about gone isn't it?

Yup = VMS (interactice) or Ultrix (named when everyone was afraid
to say Unix)


> Is that Vax...?  If so, IIRC, that was the Compaq offering,
mentioned in the
> article (Compaq, who bought DEC, apparently is/has? let Vax die
a slow death
> due to malnutrition of development resources.)

As they intended - they wanted the last great anti-IBM customer
base, to sell PCs to.

> So anybody know details about the e3000 OS?


MPE - another nice OS.

I think later ones ran MPE/UX - maybe MPE on top of Unix?

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