[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 11/15/20 8:15 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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

Selling the items below doesn't remove the functionality of
the items above.


> * DECMate II/III
> * PRO
> * Rainbow
> * DECPC (rebranded Olivetti PC)
> * Digital PC

What killed it was DEC deciding to not keep the GUI components
of VMS as up to date as they were trying to do with VMS.

Just out of curiosity, I wonder at what version of VMS the last
serious update to X-11 and DECWindows actually occurred.


bill