[Info-vax] [OT] Linux use, was: Re: Unix on A DEC Vax?

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

MG wrote 2013-01-20 15:19:
> On 20-jan-2013 0:30, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> Android is fragmenting, but it's fragmenting because it, and the
>> hardware it's running on, is evolving at an amazing rate, and to
>> be honest I find it rather exciting.
>
> To empty your wallet regularly to stay 'up-to-date'?
>
>
>> It reminds me of the early days of the PC when the PC standards we
>> see today were still developing (or didn't exist yet) and vendors
>> tried all kinds of different things in the race to create a better
>> product.
>
> Incrementally of course.  (/Buy buy buy!/)
>

I remember in the early 90s when I was at a conference that
was arount the then realy hot and new topic "Client/Server".

There was a number of bosses from Intel, HP and Dell (or similar)
trying to explain why this new client/server "thing" forced us all
to upgrade and buy new PC's everywhere.

At the end I could hold back but raised my voice and explained
that they had got it all backwards. The *main* thing with C/S
was (and still is) to be able to *prolong* life of existing
equipment (at the client side) and to build applications with
*lower* hardware demands then the at the time common fat-client
applications.

I explained that it was *me* that should have been payed to
listen to their selling crap, not the other way around.

I remember I got a applaud from the audience...

Jan-Erik.