[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Scott Dorsey]

Dave Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>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.
>
>You'll go where we want you to go today ....
>
>Too bad they stopped listening to customers and decided they knew better.

Stopped?  They never -did- listen to customers in the first place.

Once you've had the FE come out to confiscate all your Clearpoint memory
cards, you get a very different notion of where DEC's interests lay.
--scott

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