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

[Michael Kraemer]

Bob Koehler schrieb:
> In article <i4gqdj$dq0$1 at lnx107.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>, m.kraemer at gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) writes:
> 
>>And what if people's codes aren't vectorizable at all
>>(as is the case for most codes out there)?
>>And if having a bunch of moderately powerful graphics-enabled
>>machines is better bang for the buck than a single big iron? 
> 
> 
>   I don't think anybody ever bought a graphics board for a VAX 9000.

Probably.
So a bunch of VS4000's gave many users what they wanted:
decent (for the time) graphics/GUI at their fingertips,
reasonable CPU power ...

>   Or got I/O throughput on a 4000 comperable to a 9000.

... and even I/O throughput if everybody had its own disk.