[Info-vax] For sale: VAXstation 4000/90 128MB Fully Working and Tested

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 7/1/22 11:10, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 7/1/2022 10:52 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> For some reason Arne, you seem to feel that that which isn't broken 
>> must regardless be fixed.  I just don't understand such.
>>
>> I do believe that I mentioned that the Codis application/ERP did what 
>> the users needed, is successfully running their businesses, and just 
>> about anything else would be a step down, not up.
> 
> Progress is not about replacing things that are broken. Progress
> is about replacing things that work with something that work better.
> 
> Horse wagons did not stop working. But trains, cars and airplanes non
> the less replaced them for transportation.
> 
> Your Basic code running on PDP-11 did not stop working, 

Actually, it did.  But not because of the code but because someone
decided to force the unneeded change by making the PDP-11 unobtanium!

>                                                         but the
> new shiny VMS VAX thing was just better.

Was it?  My guess is that the only improvement that might have been
needed for Dave's application was a faster processor.  And that was
done even after the death of the PDP-11 in DEC's eyes.  Even faster
one's could be manufactured today with minimal required engineering.
But someone decided to fix something that wasn't really broken and
force it's users to follow them.

> 
> And so on.

And so on.....

bill