[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

glen herrmannsfeldt gah at ugcs.caltech.edu
Sun Oct 11 13:26:21 EDT 2009


JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
< Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
 
<> That technology has been obsolete for years!  
 
< Change the word "years" with "decades" and I would agree. 1403s were
< late 1970s (still in use in universities in early 1980s).

The 1403 came originally with the 1401 processor, before S/360,
so before 1963.  The actual date should be on ibm.com somewhere.
 
< DEC never had such high volume printers though. There was a period where
< they partnered with XEROX for some high volume laser printers.

-- glen



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