[Info-vax] The Doom of VAX VMS Hobbyist Licenses?

[Scott Dorsey]

Dave Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>
>If DEC had introduced low cost computers, using VMS as the OS, and 
>pursued the low cost market, perhaps we would not have Microsoft, Intel, 
>and a few others.

DEC did introduce low cost computers, like the Rainbow.  And they had
absolutely no idea that the microcomputer market was totally different
than the minicomputer market and absolutely no idea how to sell them.

Not only that, DEC introduced several different low cost systems that
took market share away from one another and totally killed whatever 
economies of scale might have made them profitable.

I miss the Decmate II though.
--scott
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