[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Scott Dorsey]

Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>On 2018-12-14, Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
>> Dave Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>>On 12/14/2018 12:27 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>>
>>>> Stopped?  They never -did- listen to customers in the first place.
>>>
>>>Scott, I must disagree.  I was involved in some of that "listening". 
>>
>> If they listened to customers we'd be running TOPS-20 today.
>
>$ set response/mode=good_natured
>
>Would that have been a good or bad thing ?

I'm not sure.  I'm inclined to think it a good thing, because when DEC
dumped the 36-systems they expected the installed base to move over to the
vaxen.  But I/O performance on the vax was not sufficient, and a whole lot of
those users moved over to IBM instead.  Losing customers is seldom a good
thing (although it's true there is a certain subset of customers that are
a loss in the end).
--scott
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