[Info-vax] RealWorldTech on Poulson

[ChrisQ]

Michael Kraemer wrote:


> 
> No, why should you?
> Moreover I wrote "lame Sun", not "lame VMS" :-)
> And those users made their decisions
> because they wanted the machines for daily use,
> not for hobbyist fun.
> But yes, it was also against VMS, which was
> on the way out already twenty years ago.
> 

Reading through your posts, you do appear to have a pathological hatred of
anything sun or digital, which is an emotional response, not one coming from
rational analysis, Mr Spock :-).

With h/w hat on and having worked on and used all three, I can say that 
while
hp were pretty good, the build quality and software were no better than 
either of
the other two. Dec and Sun (less so) were expensive, but so were hp at 
the time.

They all got the job done and it really does come down to software 
availability
and personal preference, which have much more influence than navel gazing
over which cpu is the fastest, or has the most elegant architecture. The 
really
sad thing is that the cpu landscape has been decimated by the rise of 
mass market
Pc's and intel architecture. Only Sparc and Power remain significant 
from a whole
ecosystem of innovation and original design...

Regards,

Chris