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From: johnhlee@hermod.cs.cornell.edu (John H. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DEC (was Re: A3000UX competition)
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Date: 21 Dec 90 06:18:47 GMT
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In article <1990Dec15.045518.25546@maytag.waterloo.edu> giguere@csg.uwaterloo.ca (Eric Giguere) writes:
>Didn't DEC recently announce that they won't be supporting VMS anymore and
>are concentrating solely on Ultrix?  ("no support"=="no upgrades")

Not exactly.  Quoted without permission from _Digital News_, Oct. 29:

    "VMS takes steps toward open system" by John Cox

    Digital Equipment Corp. officals said VMS will become Posix-compliant
    sometime next year, meaning that applications written to Posix standards
    will be able to run under VMS or UNIX.
    [Remainder of article deleted.]

VMS won't be dropped, but merely enhanced.  DEC can't drop VMS without losing
50-75% of its VAX business customers.  What does this have to do with Amiga
UNIX anymore?

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