[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Dave Froble]

On 12/14/2018 9:48 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Stephen Hoffman  <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2018-12-14 07:21:20 +0000, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply said:
>>
>>> Back in the days of DECcampus, DEC salesdroids were telling
>>> universities  that unix was the future.
>>
>> They were right.
>
> A few years before that, though, you had to work really hard to get them
> to let you have Ultrix at all, and they got REALLY pissed off if you
> bought a vax to run BSD or BRL Unix on.
>
> Then it's like someone flipped a switch inside DEC and everything changed.
> --scott
>
>

You'll go where we want you to go today ....

Too bad they stopped listening to customers and decided they knew better.

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