[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-10-18, chris <chris-nospam at tridac.net> wrote:
> On 10/18/21 06:22, Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Monday, October 18, 2021 at 1:32:38 PM UTC+13, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm showing you that someone has already done what you are suggesting.
>>
>> Doesn?t seem like it. Everything on their site seems more like ... what was the word you used ... ?handwaving??
>>

You are shown a major vendor in the VMS world who does exactly what
you are claiming could be done and you promptly go into full denial
mode because VMS continues to exist alongside their products thereby
damaging your arguments that all VMS systems can be moved to Linux.

>>> Contact them and ask them about it.
>>
>> No, you were the one who claimed they had done all these things, it is up to you to prove your point, not me. You said I had to do ?some reading?, which I did, and showed how it came up short. Now it?s your turn.

These people have been around for decades and all that time they
have been helping move systems away from VMS, at least those systems
which a) can be moved and b) those which the customer wants to move
away from VMS.

>
> I would stop digging if I were you :-).
>

:-)

He's not the first person I've had to deal with in recent years who
has gone into full denial mode when presented with something they
don't like. :-)

> I'm sure a lot of your ideas and solutions are possible, but the
> primary task is to get VMS into the hands of the established
> user base with the minimum of disruption to their ongoing
> business. After all, it's just a port to new cpu architecture,
> right ?.
>

Sector 7 are already doing what Lawrence claims he can offer.

Yet there is still a market for real VMS in spite of that.

> Feel free to implement your own solutions and offer up as an
> open source project, if it's that easy. What could possibly
> go wrong ?...
>

What could go wrong is that Lawrence finds out that hand waving
doesn't work when you actually have to solve real technical issues. :-)

Simon.

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