[Info-vax] Internationalization

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/1/19 5:55 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2019-01-01 kl. 20:02, skrev Bill Gunshannon:
>> On 1/1/19 11:21 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>> Den 2019-01-01 kl. 01:10, skrev Bill Gunshannon:
>>>> On 12/31/18 7:01 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Same reasons as today to not use VMS. A new HW platform doesn't
>>>>> change much for those that do not want to stay on VMS anyway.
>>>>
>>>> But if your customer is already on VMS maybe the question
>>>> should be why did they choose VMS in the first place.
>>>
>>> Why they choose that VAX 11/750 in 1982-83?
>>> It was probably a logical decision at the time.
>>
>> Based on what?
> 
> Does it matter *now*? 

It does if one wants to know what made them popular compared
to other options of the time.

>                       Isn't it enough to know that it was the
> logical decision to make at that time? 

You keep saying this.  In order to be "the logical decision"
there had to be a reason. Otherwise it was magic, alchemy or
astrology.

>                                         Besides, I have only been
> there for the last 12 years, so I was not part of it. This was
> 35+ years ago.

The in all likelihood you don;t know any more than I do.  But, based
on other posts, I am beginning to think it was more marketing than
engineering.

> 
> And besides, the fact that we still are running some of the same
> source codes (some unchanged) from the time of the port to the
> 11/750, says me that the decision was not that bad.

Also irrelevant.  Until Linux got into the game Unix code was
pretty secure, too.

> 
> Had we still been on a Pr1me system, if they had gone that
> path in the beginning of the 80s?

Like so many companies, Pr1me shot themselves in the foot.
It might interest you to know there are still people running
Pr1me 50 Series today, decades after the company disappeared.

> 
>> At that time Pr1me was still going strong
>> and beat DEC in every benchmark I ever saw.
> 
> There are a lot of cars beating my Chrysler Voyager, none of them
> would be the right car for me anyway.

So, you have a reason why the Chrysler Voyager is the right car for
you.  You must have compared it to others to make that decision or
it isn't a logical decision.  I am  merely looking for what the
comparison criteria was that made the VMS so successful.

> 
> Leave it, your efforts to beat something out of this is just silly.

So is studying the Bronze Age but people do it everyday.

bill