[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 11/15/20 12:37 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 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.

Huh?  Big VAX in the datacenter running VMS. VS3100 on the desktop
running VMS?  It's what I had working at the University.  As well
as X-terminals connecting to the big VAX for the students.  The same
could be done with Alpha, probably Itanium (I  have never used one
so I won't say for sure) and x86-64 when it gets here.  But, we all
know it won't.  Just saying it was done and it could be done again.

bill