[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Bob Eager wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:28:31 -0400, Howard S Shubs wrote:
> 
>> In article <7j97blF34f1s1U11 at mid.individual.net>,
>>  Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I was always amazed at the amount of stuff written in FORTRAN. I used
>>> something for monitoring users' terminals, and that was in FORTRAN.
>> Is that a problem?
> 
> Not at all. I'd been programming in FORTRAN on and off for about 16 years 
> at the time. JUst not, perhaps, what I'd have expected. But then I guess 
> Bliss cost too much.
> 
> 
> 

OF course BLISS cost too much!  Everything DEC sold cost too much; one 
of the big reasons why DEC is history!