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

[Michael Kraemer]

In article <FO3L5LcjnFpz at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <h7l7en$auv$03$1 at news.t-online.com>, Michael Kraemer
> <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:
> > 
> > So back to the start of this subthread:
> > to make the kids flock to this
> > VMS-crawling-on-an-emulation-on-Windows-on-an-old-PC
> > personal non-Alpha,
> > what would be the recommended software portfolio?
> 
>    For those of us who grew up on 11/780,

that's not the target group,
i.e. those kids wouldn't give a damn about 
what or how slow a 11/780 was.

> SIMH on a 2GHz Intel chip
>    does not come anywhere near crawling. 

The comparison would be the performance of
VMS apps (whatever these would be) running on emulation
vs similar apps running natively on the host system.   

> My 3300 emultion runs circles
>    around a real 3300.

Another silly
"my current computer is soo much faster than a 20 year old one"
comparison?