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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/1/2022 2:31 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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.

I don't think PDP-11 not being available was the driver behind the
move to VAX.

PDP-11 production continue until 1997 when people were migrating
from VAX to Alpha - not to VAX.

Arne