[Info-vax] VAX/VMS V1, V1.5 or anything older than V5

[MG]

On 30-5-2012 18:38, Fritz Wuehler wrote:
>> On 30-5-2012 5:50, Fritz Wuehler wrote:
>>> If you like old stuff that was good way back when, why not run
>>> OS/360 on Hercules? It took everybody else another twenty years
>>> to catch up on their compilers (to be as good as they were 20
>>> years ago) and nobody ever caught up to the OS.
>
> I said (and you quoted) "If you like old stuff that was good"

Actually, "good back when" ("then"?), is what you wrote.
                      ^^^^

> So I don't know about anyone else but I did not suggest you liked
> old for the sake of old.

Since you're somewhat dragging this out: "If you like old stuff,"
suggests something different?  Then it must've gone past me.


> Hmmm. I don't know why that should be. What platform(s) do you
> want to run Hercules on?

I don't remember exactly what I tried, it has been a few months
ago.  It could've been OS/390, I don't remember anymore.


> You got it and you know much more than average! Except, there
> was never S/380.

I initially didn't want to mention it, but then I was urged to
include it for some strange (mathematical?) reason.


> I don't know much about System i so I can't dispute that but I
> think you're wrong. Depends on what you mean by general purpose.
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> True, System Z doesn't make a very good desktop.
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

There's a slight conflict in the above.  (Does it have a true
'desktop' at all?)

  - MG