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

[David Froble]

seasoned_geek wrote:
> 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.

If you're an employee, perhaps you might choose to move on.

If it's your product and your company, most likely not.

When you have obligations to customers, you are not free to go your own 
way.  You do what is needed to support your customers.

I have chosen duty to my customers.

>> 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.

No, it was the 386.  I'm sure of that.