[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Marc Van Dyck]

on 15/11/2020, Jan-Erik Söderholm supposed :
> 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.
>
And in software development environments.
>
> VMS has never been a mainstream office desktop environment, outside of
> the technical area, as far as I know.

In a previous life, I developped financial trading software, and
installed trading rooms where each trader desk was equipped with a
VAXstation. VAX Clusters of 3 boot nodes and 50+ satellites. But yes,
that was a long time ago, and in this business, costs were not really
an issue... Was fun, though.

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Marc Van Dyck