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

[Dave Froble]

On 8/23/2018 7:24 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 08/22/2018 10:20 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 8/22/2018 12:21 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>> On 8/21/2018 10:41 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> But the companies that can change make money and those
>>>> that are stuck in the old ways goes bankrupt.
>>>
>>> Ah, citation, please?  That's a rather interesting statement.  Not
>>> sure I'm believing it.
>>
>> Kodak believed in real film not digital images.
>>
>> DEC believed in mini-computers not Unix and PC's.
>>
>> Nokia believed in phones with Symbian and real keyboard not something
>> iPhone like.
>>
>> Etc.
>>
>
> VMS believed that the users didn't want a GUI but were happy with a
> clunky CLI.

Strange, since there was DECwindows, and before that the workstation stuff.

The HW those ran on wasn't cheap.

DEC tried to maintain for too long the way things were, and lost too 
many customers.