[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rorp0g$jc$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) writes: 

> Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> >In article <i1cslrF4e2jU1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon
> ><bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes: 
> >
> >> Laugh if you will, but, actually, there is a business case for desktop
> >> to data-center.
> >
> >Back when DEC used that slogan, it were a very successful company.
> 
> This is true, but they were also selling totally different and incompatible
> systems for the desktop and the data center.  In fact, they had several totally
> incompatble desktop systems competing against one another, which I suspect
> is why it stopped being so successful.
> 
> They were not promoting one system from desktop to data center, just one 
> vendor.

Many places had VMS workstations on desktops booting as satellites from 
a much larger VAX or Alpha.