[Info-vax] Vaxes shutting off this week

[Michael Kraemer]

JF Mezei schrieb:

> 
> So, for a 25 year timeline, Alpha was the right choice beause it offered
>  growth for the whole period. But for a 10 year history, it would have
> been cheaper to just upgrade VAX until 25-JUN-2001 and forget about the
> port to ALpha and the abandonment of so much software.

It would have been even cheaper not to develop Alpha at all.
DEC should have sticked to their Mips stop-gap measure
at least for their Unix/NT offerings. VMS could have stayed
on VAX 4000 until its replacement by some Ultrix follow-up.
DECs Mips line-up at least came just in time (1989),
whereas Alpha was much too late.