[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <hfrp33$pot$01$1 at news.t-online.com>,
	Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:
> Bill Gunshannon schrieb:
> 
>> That worked both ways.  A company I was working for once lost a bid to DEC
>> (we were bidding Primes) even though the machine DEC was bidding didn't
>> even exist and while we ran all the required benchmarks and delivered boxes
>> of fanfold paper with the results DEC provided a letter that said what the
>> box would do, if it actually existed.  They won after we withdrew after
>> hearing the contract representative say, "I don't care who wins as long 
>> as long as it says VAX on the front of tthe box."  We got the last laugh,
>> DEC was bidding VMS and the site wanted the box to run all   the free
>> software they were going to get from Kitt Peak Observatory.  Yes, it was
>> all BSD Unix software!!
> 
> So they could have run Ultrix on the VAX.
 

Sure they could have.  Or BSD.  But they bought and paid for VMS when, in
fact, it was totally worthless to them for the purposes they wanted the
machine.  So, being a VAX and running VMS made the sale, but didn't do the
job!!

bill

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