[Info-vax] Vax Station 4000 VLC

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <q0bsng$t88$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, Richard Maher
<maher_rjSPAMLESS at hotmail.com> writes: 

> My real point is that I'm just sick of all these nostalgia junkies 
> saying "Without a DEC keyboard I can't play Star Tek properly :-(" pr 

No.  How many years have people lost because they never learned to type 
properly?  If one can type properly AND use the keypad (not just in 
EDT), a huge amount of time is saved.  Of course, people who can't type 
properly won't care about the keypad.

> "I'm too old too learm Windows" (tou should DCL fans will love PowerShell).

No.  Life is too short to mess with Windows.  Or Linux.

> All of this negativity is obscuring the amazing news that VMS is just 
> about to boot on commodity x86 hardware!!! Shout it from the rooftops.

Yes, good, but software is the main thing.  Back in the 1990s, Alpha was 
the fastest hardware, it ran many operating systems, including Linux 
(King Kong's fur was done on Alpha), but that didn't allow VMS to 
continue to thrive.

> The same data centres (hopefully couds), same warranties, same 
> life-spans, and same vendors as all my other hardware needs.

Same license costs?  Remains to be seen.

> Project Lazarus is a success - for fuck sake be happy!

Yes, I'll be happy if I can afford an x86 system with VMS.