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

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> wrote:
(snip)
 
> That's not unusual. For example I don't remember IBM ever dropped
> the price of obsolete hardware, e.g. to clean out their
> stock. It was just discontinued, at (almost) the same price
> when it was introduced.
> Even next generation often came at (almost) the same price as
> the previous one, but was of course more powerful.

As I understand it (mostly from books like "IBM's 360's and early
370's", and newsgroup posts) they recycled old equipment 
into new equipment.  There are a number of examples, but the 
one I remember now is that 370/158 CPUs were recycled as 
channels (that is, I/O processors) for the 3033.

More obviously, the 2319 disk drive is a recycled 2314, maybe
with different control logic but physically very similar.

-- glen