[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/16/2018 7:53 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2018-12-15, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>
>> My experience is that no matter how good something is then there
>> will always be people being able to get themselves into problems.
>>
>> But even if nobody had any problems, then I would expect to
>> see some success stories, some requests for enhancements,
>> some open source / freeware contributions, some job ads etc..
> 
> VAXELN was quite popular at one time.

I would still consider that a niche.

> How much discussion of EPASCAL did that result in on comp.os.vms ?
> 
> (That's a serious question: it was probably popular before I started
> reading comp.os.vms so I don't know how heavily it was discussed at
> that time.)

Google groups find 703 posts with the words VAXELN and Pascal.

comp.os.vms, comp.sys.dec and a surprisingly large number
of posts in comp.lang.ada.

And it is obviously not all serious programming
questions but the usual very mixed bag of stuff
seen on usenet (lots of crap).

But there is some footprint.

Arne

PS: Hit #1 is a post from 1995 about initializing arrays
     by one John R. Reagan.