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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-06-04 00:44, Chris Townley wrote:
> 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

It was done by Elextrolux in Britain, if one is to believe all the 
different analysises of the slogan that have been done. And it was 
apparently still used into the 90s by Electrolux, even though they 
started using it in the 70s.

Just google for it.

And the VAX brand of hoovers still exist as well, I believe.

   Johnny