[Info-vax] OpenVMS development tooling

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Wednesday, September 29, 2021 at 8:57:13 PM UTC+13, John Dallman wrote:
> Microsoft target Windows at a fairly specific model of computing. A 
> fairly powerful office client machine, talking to a powerful office 
> server. They aren't very interested in other markets, as their lack of 
> success in embedded, phones and HPC demonstrates. 

On the contrary, they have tried many times to get into those markets. And failed. It is their wonderful multi-million-dollar PR machine that has managed to convince the credulous (like some in this group) that this failure is simply due to lack of interest, as opposed to lack of competence.

> Windows NT on PowerPC worked OK, but the IBM hardware was extremely 
> expensive, so did not sell well.

It sold well enough to still be a viable business today, as I have pointed out.