[Info-vax] OT: news from the trenches (re: Solaris)

[seasoned_geek]

On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 1:55:23 PM UTC-5, David Froble wrote:
> Ok, so far nothing about x86.  Now I can get to that.  Good or bad, it 
> has survived, and dominated.  It probably will be around for some years 
> yet.  If that's all that I can use, in the near future, for VMS, then 
> with what I've stated above, it's going to be VMS on x86 or no VMS and 
> I'm out of business.
> 
> Good or bad, what would you choose?

Retirement or a different field. I chose to move into touch screen interfaces on embedded targets.

> 
> Move on a few years, and Intel had a FP problem with the 386 CPU. 
> Totally different attitude, "it's not a major problem, live with it", 
> and when people would not, they were very unhappy with replacing the chips.
> 

Actually wasn't it the 486? Rather than dump the chips with the problem they cut some pins/lines and the 486SX was born.