[Info-vax] Which symbol to use for VMS?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <b4e9a$557a7d69$5ed4324a$56705 at news.ziggo.nl>,
	Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl> writes:
> 
> OK, but the accompanying tag line was:
> 
> "In an ocean full of guppy operating systems, wouldn't you want to be 
> the king of the seas?"
> 
> That may have been appropriate at the time, but is a bit over the top now.
> 

This commetn made me wonder about just where things really stood.

I guess it is summed up here pretty good.

     "DEC replaced most of their smaller machines with the PDP-11 in 1970, 
      eventually selling over 600,000 units"

     "The VAX was a best-seller, with over 400,000 sold"

So, their "best-seller" actually sold only 66% as many as its predecessor.
Maybe the ending of the PDP-11 line was the actual start of the denmise
of DEC.  :-)

I wonder which has more systems, both production and hobbyist, PDP-11's
(which had three OSes to choose from) or the VMS Systems (which has 3
hardware platforms.)

Too bad there is no way to accurately determine this.

bill

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