[Info-vax] Special deals on Tape Drives

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 3/8/22 13:21, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-03-07, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 3/7/22 13:57, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> The problem with that is that VMS isn't easy to manage by current
>>> standards although it certainly was by the standards of 25 years ago.
>>>
>>
>> Simon, I pretty much agreed with what you said except for this one part.
>>
>> 25 years ago I managed Window, Unix and VMS.  Had a nice VAX Cluster and
>> about 100 users. VMS was by far the hardest to manage. I could do Unix
>> and even windows with no documentation provided by the vendor.  VMS was
>> impossible without The Grey Wall.  And, if you had documentation but
>> found it inadequate there was a wealth of third party documentation
>> available.   lot of it free.  What was there for VMS?  The Grey Wall.
>>
> 
> I suppose it's probably based on what else you were doing at that time.

Basically, VMS or anything else.  :-)

> 
> For me, I was still creating modelines for my graphics cards and monitors
> in Linux (and doing all kinds of other manual configuration stuff), and,
> in the Windows world, Windows 2000 had not yet arrived (Windows 2000
> really changed how Windows was used and managed).

I guess you didn't like NT.  I found it rather good as compared
to its predecessors.  Did a lot of 3.51 and 2.0 before 2000 came
along.  Didn't really see 2000 as an improvement.

But what I said still applies.
I still have a number of third party documentation examples for
both NT and 2000.  Unix books abounded (although I reviewed at
least one that was total crap but it got published anyway.)

bill