[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-11-15 kl. 21:50, skrev 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.
> 

In *some* places, and mainly, I would say, on VMS sysadmins tables. Might
have been a few used as CAD stations, but they was quickly replaced by
faster and quicker workstations from Sun, when they become available.

VMS has never been a mainstream office desktop environment, outside of
the technical area, as far as I know.