[Info-vax] MIcrovax 3100-98

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 11/1/19 7:49 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 11/1/2019 1:11 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 10/31/19 11:06 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>> On 10/31/2019 10:45 PM, Kerry Main wrote:
>>>
>>>> They all laughed and one of them stated he could not remember when
>>>> they had
>>>> a VAX HW problem.
>>>>
>>>> Good testament to the VAX HW, but not so good for new sales.
>>>
>>> And doesn't that sort of depend on whether you're the vendor, or, a
>>> customer?
>>>
>>> Then there was the AlphaStation 200 power supplies.  Dropped like flies.
>>>
>>> Getting 3 years out of today's PCs is very good luck.  And that's with
>>> HW in general being more robust.
>>>
>>
>> Stop buying cheap.
> 
> Who said I'm buying cheap?

You did when you said they onloy last 3 years.  :-)

> 
>> I have laptops and PCs running right now that are
>> over 10 years old.
> 
> So what?  I do believe I mentioned the 22 year old systems I have.  It 
> doesn't matter.  Old systems just won't run today's bloatware.

I have an old gateway laptop with a max of 512M of memory.  It still
works just fine.  Runs Puppy Linux.

> 
> I recently looked at AMD's new CPUs.  Guess what.  The only drivers 
> available are for WEENDOZE 10.  Which I won't boot up.

The only Windows I have are leftovers from when I worked at the
University.  As licenses run out I move them to Linux and they
continue on in service.

> 
>>  The one I am typing this on is my main day to day
>> box and has been for over 6 years.
> 
> Email isn't too demanding ....

That was more about its age than its ability.  As I said, it is my main
day to day box.  It does everything, including quite a bit of software
development.  COBOL, Fortran and a lot of C and C++ for Arduinos, ARM
and other embeded systems.  Oh yeah, it also provides emulators for the
PDP-11.  Runs Ubuntu.

bill