[Info-vax] Happy new Year !

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 06-01-2010 03:31, Michael Kraemer wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> VMS were long out of the desktop market 10 years ago.
> 
> Arne
> 

VMS was NEVER really a player in the desktop market.  IBM and the clone 
makers had that sewn up in the late 1980's or early 90's!

DEC's offering was insanely priced as were their prices for things like 
floppy disks; not the drives, the  disks themselves!  DEC wanted 
something like ten times the market price.  Very few were willing to pay 
such a premium!