Who's dead? (was RE: UNIX V7)

[Gordon JC Pearce]

On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 23:46 -0400, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 June 2009, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > On Jun 9, 2009, at 11:24 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
> > >>  Not only supported, but still under very active development!
> > >
> > > It is still a sinking ship, unfortunately.
> >
> >    Why is that?  Because it's not Windows?
> 
> Probably because its usage is going down over time?  I can't be 
> completely sure, but I'm willing to bet that if HP ported it to 
> x86/amd64 instead of ia64, it would have had a better chance of holding 
> ground.

I'm surprised there hasn't been an open-source clone of VMS yet.
There's a pretty much functional open-source clone of BeOS, a pretty
much functional open-source clone of Windows, and more open-source
Unix-alikes than you could shake quite a large stick at.  There's even a
fairly "early days yet" OS/2 clone - anyone fancy porting it to a PDP11?

Maybe I haven't looked hard enough for VMS.

Gordon