[Info-vax] RealWorldTech on Poulson

[Paul Sture]

In article <iute9q$mnn$1 at solani.org>,
 Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> wrote:

> Phillip Helbig---undress to reply schrieb:
> 
> > This was about 1995 
> 
> (snip)
> 
> > 
> > What went wrong?
> > 
> 
> As already explained: the years lost in the beginning
> not only meant just another delay in time to market,
> it gave the competition a head start of three years
> or more to build their ecosystem.
> By the time HP, Sun, even IBM reaped the benefits
> of the open systems move, DEC started from scratch
> with Alpha, OSF, VMS, almost everything they had to
> offer in 1993 was little more than beta
> (except VAX and Ultrix of course)

Circa 1990 someone gave me a Sun catalogue listing details of all 
software which would run on their kit.  It was an impressive list.

-- 
Paul Sture