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

[Chris Townley]

On 03/06/2023 20:54, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2023-06-02 14:34, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2023-06-01, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>>> On 2023-06-01 14:03, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>> On 2023-05-31, Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
>>>>> In article <nnd$6f0d1a96$39b9159a at 34e78233e2c9d371>,
>>>>> MG  <em_geeNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> wrote:
>>>>>> On 31-May-2023 21:34, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>>>>> The totally new to VMS just wanting to try a few DCL commands
>>>>>>> probably do not care what architecture they are running on - most
>>>>>>> likely they will not even know. VMS is VMS.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On what other platform can one run "a few DCL commands"?
>>>>>
>>>>> VAX.  The future is VAX.  Digital has it now!
>>>>
>>>> "Nothing sucks like a VAX". :-)
>>>
>>> I wonder if people will ever get that this quote is incorrect.
>>>
>>> There is a vacuum brand called VAX, but the quoted slogan was from
>>> another brand - Electrolux. "Nothing sucks like Electrolux". Which even
>>> rhymes properly.
>>>
>>>     Johnny
>>>
>>
>> No, it was used by the VAX vacuum cleaner people as well.
>>
>> Could not find any direct advertising material references, but did find
>> these references:
>>
>> http://catb.org/jargon/html/V/VAX.html
>>
>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14884244
> 
> You can't find any direct advertising material because it don't exist.
> 
> And do you really think one company would copy the slogan of another 
> competitor?
> 
> It's just another of those urban stories that just goes around, and 
> reinforce themselves just because everyone else also propagates them.
> 
> If you google for "Nothing sucks like an Electrolux" you'll find plenty 
> of examples of ads with the slogan. Started in the 70s. Just about the 
> same time the VAX was introduced. And people who didn't like what DEC 
> was doing, or what the VAX was (read - especially PDP-10 people) just 
> adopted the advertising slogan to make a joke.
> 
>    Johnny

It may have been a British thing - The Vax was a wet and dry 'hoover' 
and I remember hearing the slogan well after VAX was established

-- 
Chris