[Info-vax] Knock knock, anyone there?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2014-09-30, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:
> On 2014-09-30, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>> On 2014-09-29, mcleanjoh at gmail.com <mcleanjoh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Did everyone see the statement from VSI dated September 12?
>>>
>>> http://www.vmssoftware.com/pdfs/VSI_DrawerSt_v2.pdf
>>>
>>
>> No I didn't; thanks for the link.
>>
>> Seeing the MA based address makes me think they should have set
>> themselves up back in the Old Mill and hence come full circle. :-)
>
> ISTR reading an article within the last year that it's occupied.
>

I remember that as well but I thought it had been divided up into
multiple business units (just like I read it used to be when DEC was
originally starting out).

>> BTW, they need to work on their PDF creation skills.
>>
>> 1.5MB for a single of of text with a little logo ? Really ? :-)
>
> That's down to the logo. 5104 x 1404 pixels - it includes the "Software"
> text.
>

Wow. :-(

It seems few people know how to optimise for size these days.

Simon.

PS: "few" because I'm having similar issues with Atmel datasheets at
the moment; in recent years they have grown to stupid sizes even though
the actual content is still comparable in type and page count. As an
example, the datasheet for a specific MCU, which used to be well under
10MB a number of years ago, is now over 30MB.

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