[Info-vax] Internationalization

[Dave Froble]

On 1/1/2019 10:05 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 1/1/19 3:00 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 12/31/2018 11:44 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> You don't get out much, huh?
>>
>> My experience is that a rather large part of VMS adoption was from
>> those using PDP-11.  Many of the RSTS users moved to VMS.  There was
>> much more than a few.
>>
>> Basic+
>> BP2
>> VAX Basic
>>
>> The progression was available, many used it.
>>
>>
>
> I don't like to believe it, but I have often been told that
> VMS was RSTS/E V11.0.  :-)
>
> bill
>

Well, no.  VMS grew out of RSX as much as anything else.

However, the RSTS users made sure that DEC knew that it was inadequate 
to replace what they were used to.  And so DEC set up meetings and such 
for RSTS users to explain what they needed.  I was the rep from my 
company that attended these meetings.

Things would start with the DEC people, looking perplexed, asking what 
was wrong with what existed.  Some of the RSTS people were rather good 
to explain the lack(s) and how to remedy the situation.  The DEC people 
did listen, and came through, and some of that is what made VMS 
successful.  Some of the issues I remember were print and batch queues, 
and the capabilities required.  And other stuff.

DEC did listen to customers, and when they did so, they had success.

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