[Info-vax] Out with Hurd, in with OpenVMS

Richard B. Gilbert rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Sun Aug 15 08:32:12 EDT 2010


Neil Rieck wrote:
> On Aug 9, 5:47 pm, seasoned_geek <rol... at logikalsolutions.com> wrote:
>> We can only hope they bring someone in who actually understands what
>> they have.
>>
>> Maybe we can petition for them to bring in Ken Olsen?
> 
> Now this is the best thing I've seen suggested in the newsgroup in a
> long time. Why Olsen? He ran DEC from 1956 to 1992 and only posted two
> quarterly losses. How many companies can make this claim today?
> 
> Neil Rieck
> Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
> Ontario, Canada.
> http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/OpenVMS.html

And he was smart enough to get out while the getting was good!



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