[Info-vax] OT: For Mr VAXman: Microsoft racist gaffe !

[Bob Koehler]

In article <h7hffj$etv$00$1 at news.t-online.com>, Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:
> Keith Parris schrieb:
> 
>> Hardware cost is the same -- any old PC. Emulation software is free: 
>> Personal Alpha from http://personalalpha.com/ or simh from 
>> http://simh.trailing-edge.com/. Licenses are free from 
>> http://openvmshobbyist.org/. The only cost at present is $30 for a 
>> OpenVMS Hobbyist media CD.
> 
> and what kind of apps should they run
> on this "personal alpha"?

   Some damn good compilers.

> Which office suite does HP recommend?

   Who cares what HP recommends?  They're an MS shill.

> Or maybe some web browser?

   Sure enough, fearlessly browsing the web is great.

> Oh, I forgot, web browsers are forbidden
> on a server-only OS.

   Just because HP thinks it's server-only has never chased it off my
   desktop.

> But running an OS just for itself is kind of boring,
> isn't it?

   Not if you want to learn, as in an OS.