[Info-vax] Some good news !

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>>> Steven Underwood wrote:
>>>>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>>>>> I have heard nothing about Vista that would make me want to 
>>>>>> upgrade.  If and when I get a new PC, I may very well just install 
>>>>>> W/XP on it!
>>>>>
>>>>> I agree there is nothing to cause me to upgrade from XP on my other 
>>>>> machines, but Apple advertisements not withstanding, I have not 
>>>>> seen any major problems with Vista on machines designed for it.  I 
>>>>> got my laptop with my new job with Vista Ultimate, and other than 
>>>>> needing to max out the memory to get better than OK performance, I 
>>>>> have had no issues at all with it. IMO, Microsoft's mistake was in 
>>>>> setting the required memory value too low. 2 GB should have been 
>>>>> minimum with 4 GB recommended.
>>>>
>>>> Talk about software bloat!!  My W/XP system runs quite happily in 
>>>> one GB.   My wife's PC has less memory, I think, and it also runs 
>>>> W/XP without problems.
>>>
>>> And?
>>>
>>> 2 GB cheap memory (DDR2 dual channel PC6400) costs around 20-30 dollars.
>>> And 4 GB of the same 30-40 dollars.
>>>
>>> HW evolves.
>>>
>>> 1 MB - 4 MB - 32 MB - 512 MB - 2 GB - 8 GB - ....
>>>
>>> I don't see any reason why that trend should stop at 1 GB.
>>
>> I have 1 GB.  I could add three more 1GB DIMMs but what would it do 
>> for me?  Besides lightening my wallet by $30 or $40?
>>
>> I reiterate: everything I need or want to do with the system can be 
>> done  with the memory I now have.  If something could be done in 1/4 
>> of a second instead of 1/2 of a second . . .  what does it buy me?   
>> If I needed to do it 10,000 times a day I'd seriously consider maxing 
>> out the memory.  I don't see that happening.
> 
> There may also be someone out there running a VAX 780 with VMS 1.0
> and be perfectly happy with that.
> 
> But HP will either not support it or charge something like the GDP
> of a medium size state for support.
> 
> And meanwhile the world has moved on.
> 
> Arne

It hardly NEEDS support! I'm still running antique versions of VMS as 
well.  I have no need for support; it still works and I still remember 
(mostly) how to use it.