[Info-vax] Current VMS engineering quality, was: Re: What's VMS up to these days?

[Subcommandante XDelta]

On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 23:06:10 -0500, "Richard B. Gilbert"
<rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:

>On 3/6/2012 10:00 PM, Michael Kraemer wrote:
>> John Wallace schrieb:
>>
>>> Have you ever done business with National Instruments? No I haven't
>>> either, but everything I hear about them says they sell a range of
>>> quality product at a premium price with a service to match, much like
>>> DEC in the good old days, and that their employees are happy to work
>>> there. How do they do it? Well I suspect at least part of the magic is
>>> that their customers are scientists and engineers not trend-following
>>> and/or bean-counting IT people.
>>
>> NI stuff is (almost) all Weendoze,
>> and most scientists and engineers have the same sheep mentality
>> as everybody else.
>>
>
>Windows works!  It started as something close to rotting manure.
>That was years ago.  Today, it works.

You would not run a space station with it - word.

> It has worked for the last eight 
> or nine years.  I don't know of any serious competition!

Well, yes... Capo de Capo Microsoft has seen to that, full spectrum
dominance by any means going, they benchmark unprincipled
ruthlessness.

Their latest antics:

http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/restricted-boot-comic-contest-defend-user-freedom-on-tablets-and-smartphones

>You may sneer and mutter about "click and drool".  I'm happy to finally 

You can click.n'drool with X-Windows as well.

>have a desktop system with software that works and that I can afford.  I 
>have a word processor and a spread sheet.  I could have a database if I 

VMS running natively on the intel desktop/laptop, running all these
bread and butter apps, ported - it's *not* an impossible future.

Granted - improbable - but not impossible.

>needed one.  I even have "Turbo Tax" which has made preparing my income 
>tax return bearable.
>
>Well, as close to bearable as it can be!

(in hindsight) rehashing old rehashes, sorry about that.