[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/15/2020 7:57 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 11/15/20 6:34 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 11/15/2020 3:50 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Sure.
>>
>> But that was a tiny fraction of desktop market.
>>
>> Probably more developers and system managers than
>> end users.
>>
>> Remember that the desktop market as such is counted in
>> hundreds of millions of users.
> 
> Today, maybe, but at the time when the VAX was first doing this
> the market was much smaller and very fragmented.  Proprietary
> Word Processing Systems.  CP/M.  Some very limited Unix.  MS
> had not yet taken over the world.

When DECWindows started shipping in 1989 the PC and
Microsoft were already selling in vast quantities.

It was MS DOS, WordPefect text processor and Lotus 123
spreadsheet - not MS Windows and MS Office.

Arne