[Info-vax] Current VMS Usage Survey

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <10f4895a-7599-4915-981f-8ea5f2e3c8c5 at googlegroups.com>,
	Sprag <bdwheele at indiana.edu> writes:
> 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...


Not in this case.  He specifically wanted to run Windows and was
disappointed when he couldn't.  He held off on going to Linux as
long as he could.  Interestingly enough after he made the move he
became very enamored with Linux.  And that was back before it was
anything like what it is today.

bill

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