[Info-vax] Chinese Alpha?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <jnvf63$kaa$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> 
> There used to be many manufacturing customers that used VMS.  There must have been reasons 
> why they used VMS.  I'm sure that they were not interested in moving to another OS, if 
> they had any choice.  It wasn't cheap, and it wasn't the business they were/are in.

   The reason they used VMS might have been the same reasons folks now
   use Windows or UNIX.

   While there are some applications that can't survive Windows or UNIX;
   back in the 80's if you had a problem and needed a computer to solve
   it, you just went out and bought a VAX.