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[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2020-08-18 17:02:19 +0000, gérard Calliet said:

> Hey Stephen, do you know the difference between a concept and a 
> peculiar reality?

My own reality tends toward "peculiar".

Though I suspect "particular" was meant there.

A quick ponder did find the existence of Peculiar Realtors, for those 
planning to pull up stakes to purchase property near Peculiar.

> THE CONCEPT here is about was the IDEA creating mini-computers.

Minis and superminis are constructs approaching a half-century in age, 
and the subsequent two- and three-tier client-server premise, a market 
largely subsumed by microcomputer servers, if not yet smaller boxes. In 
the current vernacular, this organizational structure is known as "edge 
computing".

I'm far more interested in ten or twenty years ahead though, and less 
about re-hashing the last-millennium of 
micro-mini-supermini-mainframe-super positioning.

That old ideas are remixed and re-thought is hardly perspicacious.

That the mid-range market tends to be pummeled is also not particularly 
newsworthy.

Where things become piquant with product design is in positing, 
producing, and promoting new ideas and new mixes. Alas, seldom recently 
seen around OpenVMS.

Less loquaciously, it's about the next ten years, and then the next 
ten, and less about the last ten. The x86-64 port is the priority, then 
broadening hardware support, tooling upgrades, and hopefully UI-related 
overhauls for system management including ease of use, app development 
and tooling, and on security befitting the marketing. VSI has a 
prodigious list of potential projects.


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