[Info-vax] OT: IBM Offering $9-10 Per Share for Sun

[Michael Kraemer]

JF Mezei schrieb:

> 
> They are not concerned about performance. If you have plant machinery
> designed to produce 1 tonne of paper per hour, you can't just push a
> button to make those machines go faster, so in the end you don't need a
> faster computer to control those machines. So having your VAX box moved
> to an emulated 8086 gives you compatibility with your older system
> without any software worries and with mor readily available spare parts.

Which is kind of a strange argument.
The main issue here is reliability, not speed.
Those emulators most probably run on top
of some Linux or (gulp) Windoze OS.
Now we are told here over and over again
how crap these platforms are,
crashing all the time and needing xx patches
per month etc etc.
How can such unreliable platforms host VAX/VMS ?
They would need to be at least as reliable as VAX/VMS
to be worth hosting it.
And if they are just as reliable, why not just skip VMS
and proceed with Linux/Windoze instead ?