[Info-vax] personal workstation: configure to boot VMS

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <t4ckbo$6un$2 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> On 2022-04-27, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> >
> > I'm still using a Nokia 3330.  One of my children needs a mobile phone 
> > but not a smartphone.  I thought that I could pick up a used 3330 (or 
> > 3310) cheap, but it isn't as easy as I thought---I should have picked up 
> > a few 3--4 years ago.  For less money than the 3330 can be found for 
> > used, one can by a new one, such as the 107.  Essentially the same 
> > functionality as the 3330, but more modern and so on.
> >
> 
> How long will the 2G and 3G networks continue to be supported in
> Germany ?

Well, my phone still works, while those with newer (but still old)
protocols don't.  Why were they switched off and the older ones not? 
Bandwidth.  My guess is that the Nokia 3310 and so on will continue to
work at least as long as I live.  The bandwidth is negligible, so why
switch it off?  Also, all new cars are required to have an automatic
emergency notification.  Things like that, and SMS in various
applications, are widely used and use negligible resources.