[Info-vax] RealWorldTech on Poulson

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 7/5/2011 6:38 AM, Paul Sture wrote:
> 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.
>

I have a book somewhere listing third party software for VMS!  It's an 
inch and a half thick!  There was no shortage of software.  OTOH almost
nobody was effectively marketing the software.