[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Fri Dec 14 21:48:56 EST 2018


On 12/14/2018 9:11 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 12/14/18 2:21 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>> In article <g7g5e4F3t1mU1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon
>> <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes:
>>> It did not help keep VMS
>>> around Universities it was already at and certainly didn't
>>> bring it into new locations.  Trust me, I know.  I fought
>>> that battle until finally being told the equipment had to be
>>> removed.
>>
>> Back in the days of DECcampus, DEC salesdroids were telling universities
>> that unix was the future.
> 
> VMS replaced IBM in the University data center.  Unix did not
> replace VMS, Windows did.

University administrative IT went Windows like everybody else.

But first Unix and later Linux took over large part of
CS and natural sciences for both research and teaching.

Arne





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