[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[gérard Calliet]

Le 14/12/2018 à 14:10, johnson.eric at gmail.com a écrit :
> On Thursday, December 13, 2018 at 10:18:13 PM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 
>> Wishful thinking.  The machines used in University level courses do
>> not jump around from one OS to another at the whim of some professor.
>> I had boxes running Windows, boxes running Linux, boxes running BSD
>> and sometimes boxes running more obscure OSes for special projects.
>> They aren't interested in comparing anything to VMS because there is
>> no one left who knows what VMS is.  There are no textbooks that even
>> mention it.
> 
> I share Bill's general thoughts on the topic.
> 
> I'm probably one of the youngest contributors here. I graduated 25 years
> ago and had never touched or even heard of VMS. Even then - and this
> is 25 years ago! - it was an odd duck. The only thing odder and older than
> VMS (to my young eyes) was IBM's MVS and the 3270 terminal.
> 
> Again to my eyes then and now - it's simply an old man's OS. A curiosity
> at best. A time when data center operators wore shirts and ties like what
> I would see in old black and white photos.
> 
> It would be like expecting the car shop kids to want to learn about steam
> powered cars. Uhm, yeah sure, for an afternoon I guess, but meanwhile
> there is a ton of other _modern_ and _relevant_ things that everyone
> has to learn. The computational world is huge and spending one's most
> precious resource - your time - on something like this just doesn't
> have any payout.
> 
> Unfortunately, VMS has nothing distinctive to offer to the modern
> student that can't be learned easier and faster elsewhere.
> 
> 
> EJ
> 
Done. I'm beginning to understand the "goal" here, at c.o.v.: some 
bitter discussions between "old men".

And, no, no, you are proving you are older than all, here. The war 
between the old and the modern is the oldest war, the most sterile, and 
the most absurd.

What is really new with VSI is that it proves it is possible to innovate 
with very ancient things. And VSI is not doing "wishfull thinking".

The innovation is not to redo the old errors with new modern faces, it 
is creating really new improvments on really good things.

And I'm sure there are new computer genius who don't think "réinventer 
l'eau sucrée" is an interesting topic.

And thanks a lot. It seems you are saying a very common opinion, here. 
Fresh to hear that as it is.

Gérard Calliet