[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/15/2020 7:53 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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.

He may have been referring to the fact that DEC sold:
* VAX stations
* X terminals
* DECMate II/III
* PRO
* Rainbow
* DECPC (rebranded Olivetti PC)
* Digital PC

Arne