[Info-vax] Happy new Year !

[Michael Kraemer]

Richard B. Gilbert schrieb:

> In some cases I might be able to buy software to do under VMS some of 
> the things I now do under windows.  I would expect to have to pay ten to 
> two hundred times the price of similar software for my PC and get a 
> poorer product!  The size of the market is too damned small for 
> economies of scale.

That's the situation as it is now,
but it wasn't ten or fifteen years ago,
when the decision was made to let go VMS as a desktop system.
But still VMS would be as capable for that as Linux, for example.
It's all X based.