[HECnet] Anonymous FAL (Tops-20)

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 7/5/2019 1:57 PM, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
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> 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...
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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.

FWIW, the "source" CDs are actually mostly output listings from the various compilers and there are certain 3rd party propitiatory bits missing but a lot of the internals are there.

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John H. Reinhardt