[Info-vax] Internationalization

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/31/2018 10:59 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 12/31/18 10:37 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 12/31/2018 9:03 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> As I mentioned in a previous post, it would be very interesting
>>> to learn why VMS was chosen for a lot of the systems that are
>>> still on it.  VMS was never the only choice.  If it was chosen
>>> for a reason is that reason still valid today?
>>
>> If it was chosen after mid 90's there most likely was
>> a specific reason.
>>
>> But before it may just have been a standard choice.
> 
> There were numerous options before the mid 90's, too.

Sure.

But back then VMS was a big player and choosing VMS was a common
enough choice so that no special justification was really needed.

Like today if you pick RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu or Windows.

There are choices. Different companies will have different
preferences. But no one is surprised if a company picks
one of them.

With a rewrite of an old IBM saying: back then nobody
got fired for choosing VMS.

> I wonder how many VAX were sold as replacements for
> PDP-11's.

Probably some. PDP-11 customers were DEC customers, so
DEC had a foot in the door to sell VAX.

But I don't think it count for that large part of
the VAX market. I don't think I have ever heard of
anyone going from PDP-11 to VAX. I still believe
there must have been some somewhere.

Arne