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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

DaveG wrote:
> On Aug 18, 3:51 am, Michael Kraemer <M.Krae... at gsi.de> wrote:
>> Neil Rieck schrieb:
>>
>>> On Aug 16, 8:29 am, m.krae... at gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) wrote:
> 
>>> Unlike people like Gordon
>>> Bell, these VPs were not computer people. Bell wrote that the computer
>>> industry goes through a major change every 10 years (or so) so the end
>>> of VAX was in site and DEC needed to do PRISM.
>>
> 
> I believe we were told Alpha would be the processor for the next 25
> years when it was introduced.  It didn't make it.

25 years is 25 lifetimes in computer years.  It's obsolete six months to 
a year after it was first announced!