[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Dave Froble]

On 12/15/2018 2:08 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 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
>

Makes one wonder, if DEC could get the required I/O performance on the 
32 bit systems, why couldn't they do so on the 32 bit systems?

If the 36 bit systems were still here today, they would have evolved, as 
all others did, and would be as good or better than most.

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