[Info-vax] VMS-based InfoServer

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Michael Kraemer wrote:
> In article <i3dp8r$rhv$1 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip
> Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
>> In article <j9ydnYP0n-mjH8TRnZ2dnUVZ_qmdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B.
>> Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes: 
>>
>>> You are probably one of the ONLY two people here who insist on reading 
>>> mail/news on a VMS system.   
>> I think there are a few more.
>>
>>> Face it!  VMS has been on life support for 
>>> at least the last fifteen years!
>> Should we accept things as they are, or try to change them for the 
>> better.
>>
>>> Take a giant step into the twenty-first century!
>> Gladly.  But that does not mean bowing down to some silly MicroSoft 
>> stuff which creates more problems than it solves.
>>
>> Let's face it: most people don't drive a Porsche.  But if I am a member 
>> of a Porsche fan club, I'm not going to drive to the meeting in a Chevy.
> 
> As always, this Porsche analogy is quite a stretch.
> First, Porsche is no more as an independent entity.
> (OK, that's a bit like DEC being swallowed by a bigger one).
> But second, staying with cars, I'd rather use some obsolete
> car with limited usefulness these days, 
> maybe a Borgward or even an East German Trabant.
> Or how about a car with strange innards, possibly a Wankel engine?
> 

The Wankel was a very nice engine as long as the seals lasted!