[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

P. Sture paul.nospam at sture.ch
Sun Oct 4 08:39:11 EDT 2009


In article <ha4jeg$792$1 at gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
 rf10 at cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) wrote:

> we bought (rather grotty) compatibles, and worked with them for a long
> time.  their arrival stopped my porting effort (it was going slowly
> anyway, due to workload).
> 
> however, we were a dec oem, and eventually dec made us an offer we
> couldn't refuse, for vt100s.  i never liked vt100s much but they were
> an awful lot better than the previous compatibles.

When EDIT/TPU came out I couldn't use it because we were stuck with VT52 
compatibles! I really hated those things, and ended up buying a couple 
of VT220s myself.

-- 
Paul Sture



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