[Info-vax] VMS on a PC

[Stanley F. Quayle]

On 11 Jan 2009 at 16:04, Beach Runner wrote:
> It turns out the PC had plenty of memory, the license you pay for determines
> how much memory it has and other things.  Sort of reminds me of the old IBM
> Systems, you upgraded, paid big bucks, and someone would come over and turn
> a screw or the like. 

That's a "feature" of a virtual machine.  I'd love to give everyone a 6-processor VAX 
with 8 GB of RAM, but it's overkill for most customers.  3/4 of my sales are the 128 MB 
single-processor model (CHARON-VAX/XM).  Lots of the low-end machines I replace only had 
16 to 64 MB before virtualization.  Customers say it's much faster than the original, and 
they're happy.

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On 11 Jan 2009 at 19:38, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> The price is NOT free as it requires the purchase of a game console with a
> Micro$oft logo.  I'd be much more inclined to want to try and, perhaps, even
> use it if I could run it on something other than a Weendoze toybox. 

Half of my customers WANT Windows.  That way, they can sell it to management as being 
"industry standard".  Only the tech people know that it's really running VMS.  ;-)
Of course, Windows is proprietary, but management doesn't understand that...

> I might even be persuaded to make a contribution to the bottom line of these
> Charon-Alpha people if it could be made to run under Linux or OS X.  

I have a list of prospects that are waiting for Linux support.  The developers assure me 
that it's "on the list".  In the meantime, I gotta use the tools I have...

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On 11 Jan 2009 at 19:44, Michael Unger wrote:
> It is rather expensive (about 1500 USD) as I've been told ... 

As you know, I can't discuss pricing in an open forum.  However, consider how much extra 
it would cost to lug a VAXstation 4000 on an airline trip (+monitor, keyboard, mouse, all 
non-standard these days).  In 3 bags, that's $150 a pop, assuming that it survives the 
trip.  And the TSA would probably want you to boot it up at every security checkpoint.  
How do you price that pain?  :-(

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Everyone in comp.os.vms complains to me about pricing or features or whatever.  If you 
want something that's not available now, I'll be glad to pass it on to the guys in 
Switzerland.  But they're in the driver seat, not me.

Regardless of where you stand on CHARON, I love VMS, and the people involved in it.  You 
might not like my approach or my products & services, but at least I'm with YOU, not 
trying to convert everything to something else.  [Itanium doesn't count, it's still VMS.  
And I do Itanium conversions, too.]

If you want to flame me, please send it to stan-at-stanq-dot-com.  There's already enough 
noise the list as it is.

[Shameless Plug Alert (tm) -- I am a CHARON reseller.  But that's not all that I do, 
check out http://www.stanq.com ]

--Stan Quayle
Quayle Consulting Inc.

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