[Info-vax] Current VMS Usage Survey

[Sprag]

On Friday, December 6, 2013 7:14:10 AM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <l7rgqg$aen$1 at solani.org>,
> 
> 	Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:

> > It has been discussed several times here:
> > German PC retailer Vobis had Alpha/NT boxes
> > for sale twice in the 1990s, in the very beginning
> > and around 1996/97.
> > They had them on display and mentioned in their
> > marketing flyers and in the trade press.
> > Nobody except a few alpha fanatics wanted them,
> 
> I don't know about that.  We had a Physics Professor who bought one
> for a grant suported project.  He loved it.  Ended out putting Linux
> on it because he cold not get applications to run under NT on it.  I
> always figured it was the lack of applications that most likely caused
> NT/Alpha's demise. (Where have we heard that before?)
> 

I think most people bought the NT-only alphas to run linux.  My department bought several Personal Workstation 300XL boxes...