[Info-vax] VMS - what is the current thinking amongst the user community

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <731r18Fs5av9U1 at mid.individual.net>,
	billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
> Once again the bearer of bad tidings.
> 
> There was a local pizza joint I have frequented for many years.  I
> always got a kick out of their POS system.  HDS Terminals with a
> protective membrane (I guess to keep the flour and pizza sauce out)
> and templates showing what keys to hit.  Now, you are probably
> wondering what this has to do with VMS.  Well, all these terminals
> were hooked up to a small VAX (not sure of the model, most likely
> a MicroVAX II) running VMS.  There has not been a local DEC office
> here for nearly two decades and it just ran.
> 
> The bad tidings?  I was in for a pizza about a week ago and it is now
> all Windows Touch Screens.  :-(
> 
> I wonder what they did with the VAX?  I wonder if I could do them a
> favor and dispose of it for them? :-)
> 

And to add to the bad tidings.  I just got in touch with them and was
informed "the old system has already been discarded".  :-(

bill

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