[Info-vax] OpenVMS servers and clusters as a cloud service

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 01/01/2018 08:07 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 
> 
> It's a very different philosophy than we came up with.  Hell, I worked for
> a company where they probably had 300 people on staff supporting one machine,
> way back when.
> --scott
> 

While this reads interesting, it is, once again, an invalid
comparison for most purposes.  You did not have 300 people
supporting one machine.  You had one machine supporting 300
people.  I doubt that those 300 people were admining that
one machine. More likely they were maintaining apps that
ran on that one machine. Assuming we are talking mainframe
(or very large mini there were probably from 1 to 4 people
actually supporting the machine while the machine supported
the rest and their applications.  My first foray into being
a system programmer was 1 Univac 1100, 5 Prime 850's, a Prime
2250 (Rabbit), a handful of Zenith 286 (AT Class) Pc's and a
handful of Unix micros.  We had one full time tech rep from
Univac, and 4 system programmers who worked on all of them.
The machines supported both administrative and academic
applications for about 800 staff & faculty and 4000 students.
I wold never state that as 4801 people supporting a couple
dozen machines.

bill