[Info-vax] OpenVMS V9.0-C Released July 29th

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 8/9/20 11:49 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>> In article <rgbsk8$d7$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
>> <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>
>>> One thing I've known for many years, usage of VMS is very diversified,
>>> someone somewhere doing things I'd not imagine.
>>
>> How did my secret get out?  :-)
> 
> And at that, it is quite a bit less diversified than it was twenty years
> ago.  There was a time when people bought vaxen because of the hardware
> and used VMS because that is what there was, not because of any features of
> the OS.  That time is gone, but some of the applications from that time remain.
> --scott
> 

Diversified enough that we used to have a local pizza shop that
had a MicroVAX running VMS and HDS Terminals as their POS and
telephone order handler.  One day I went in and the POS were
Windws boxes and when I asked I was told the old system went
into the dumpster.  :-(

People may think that the one small MicroVAX customers weren't
anything to lose sleep over but how many thousands of them did
DEC lose?


bill