[Info-vax] Time to turn DECUServe into a mixed VMScluster?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/2/2023 8:38 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 2023-06-01, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> We are talking about a PR stunt here - running a VMS cluster with
>>> 4 architecture to get some good press.
> 
> There appear to be users of emulated VAX systems.  These could be 
> serious production systems.  Perhaps such users would like to add an x86 
> VMS system, and to cluster it with their emulated VAX systems.  Why?  I 
> don't know, and it doesn't matter.

We know that some VMS VAX systems still in production. Hundreds maybe
thousands.

But as I wrote in that post but did not get quoted:

#                                      (it seems reasonable
# to assume that a VMS VAX system today is "frozen" aka don't
# want to change anything).

I don't think enough of those VMS VAX customers will be
interested in having their VAX change cluster topology
to justify any VMS VAX encryption solution.

 >                            So, considering it a "PR stunt" is
 > unfair to such users.

I don't get that.

A company makes something artificial to get some
good PR.

Why would that be unfair to the customers using the
product for something serious?

Did Tesla owners feel unfairly treated when Musk
sent a Tesla into space?

I don't think so.

Arne