[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/15/18 3:20 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> 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.
> 

So would the PDP-11, but that's another story.

bill