[Info-vax] Anyone interested in another public access system

[Michael Kraemer]

yyyc186 schrieb:

> VMS is dying because Ken Olsen made the mistake of letting MBAs into a
> company 

he made the mistake of ignoring personal computing,
RISC and Unix.

> which had been run by engineers and in the 80s was shoving IBM
> out of shops right and left.  Then the MBAs got involved.  They made
> beautiful decisions:

(snip)

And who made the beautiful decision to launch three
(or was it four ?)
RISC projects in the 1980s of which none came to fruition ?

The decision to waste money on the VAX 9000 at a time
when even IBM started to deemphasize mainframes
(and invest in AIX/Power instead) ?

The decision to effectively kill the reasonably successful
Mips/Ultrix line in favour of the unproven Alpha ?

> Unix on the other hand, rolled into colleges for free and was
> installed on discarded hardware. 

BS.
Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, even DECs own products Ultrix and OSF/1
never came "free", and neither did the associated hardware.
They were, however, more reasonably priced than VMS platforms.