[Info-vax] Vaxes shutting off this week

[Tom Linden]

On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:40:21 -0800, Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de>  
wrote:

> 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.
>
I agree, Mips was in my view a better design, and Digital had after all
invested in the venture.  But as I have said before, abandoning the
VAX was the seminal event that led to Digital's failure.


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