[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Dave Froble]

On 12/14/2018 8:13 AM, johnson.eric at gmail.com wrote:
> 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
>

Strong feelings, huh?  Had to post it three times?

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