[Info-vax] Sears.com will be listing OpenVMS books some time in January

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 11/30/2011 9:11 PM, seasoned_geek wrote:
> On Nov 30, 6:11 pm, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>> In article<8b76ed6e-baad-4d71-9eae-ffdbb1f0f... at g21g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>, seasoned_geek<rol... at logikalsolutions.com>  writes:
>> {...snip...}
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>>> Right now when you go to Sears.com and search for "OpenVMS" you only
>>> see a listing for Reflections.  In a few months, you will see many
>>> more OpenVMS titles there.
>>
>> Maybe HP can sell OpenVMS to Sears.  I can see it now...
>>
>> Sears OpenVMS
>> Featuring:
>> Sears OpenVMS Clustering with DieHard Distributed Lock Manager
>> Craftsman CMS, MMS, PCA, LSE, and DTM and Kenmore compilers
>>
>> I could then patronize the Apple store and Sears in a single Mall visit to
>> solace my inner geek.
>>
>> --
>> VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker    VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG
>>
>> All your spirit rack abuses, come to haunt you back by day.
>> All your Byzantine excuses, given time, given you away.
>
> I was thinking more along the lines of people telling you OpenVMS
> isn't mainstream and you being able to tell them "You can buy a book
> on it at Sears, the same time you are buying dress shirts, a suit, and
> power tools.  How much more mainstream do you have to be?"

Sears & Roebuck is about the LAST place that I would go to buy a book!

As I recall, Sears doesn't sell books.  Hand tools, power tools, 
clothing, toys, house wares, . . . .  It's certainly about the last 
place that I would go to in search of a book.


>
> Speaking of such things...have there been any more "OpenVMS laptops"
> surfacing?  I'm not talking about some God awful Charon catastrophe,
> I'm talking about Alpha or Itanium laptops.  I mean if they already
> have blades, there should be at least a few lunchbox computers out
> there and one or two sewing machines.