[Info-vax] OT: For Mr VAXman: Microsoft racist gaffe !

[Keith Parris]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> It would be nice if they could learn VMS but that ain't going to happen!
> Cost of hardware or emulation software and licenses would be real killers.

Hardware cost is the same -- any old PC. Emulation software is free: 
Personal Alpha from http://personalalpha.com/ or simh from 
http://simh.trailing-edge.com/. Licenses are free from 
http://openvmshobbyist.org/. The only cost at present is $30 for a 
OpenVMS Hobbyist media CD.