[Info-vax] Should VSI create a modern day VMS applications book ?

[Chris]

On 08/23/18 03:40, Dave Froble wrote:

> That's not "old ways", that's displaced product. I seem to recall some
> Kodak digital cameras. Perhaps it was the ultra cheap products from
> China and such that did in Kodak?

Kodak were one of the first companies in the world to develop digital
imaging sensors (nasa, military ?) and were quite successful at it,
but it's often the case that the early innovators fail when others learn 
from their mistakes, leapfrog and build something better.

>
>> DEC believed in mini-computers not Unix and PC's.
>
> DEC sold microCPU based systems. C-VAX, N-VAX, Alpha, etc.
> DEC sold PCs.

Maybe, but dec got greedy, thought they could dictate to a rapidly
changing market. Severely resented by those in academia, who
saw what Sun and others were doing at a fraction of the price and
far more performance.

> Unix sucks.

Typical of the attitude and closed mindedness that makes no progress :-)

Chris