11 Jun
2009
11 Jun
'09
1:35 p.m.
On Jun 11, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Kirn Gill <segin2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
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Dave McGuire wrote:
Yeah, what a horrible world we live in -- affordable, powerful
hardware capable of running a wide variety of free, powerful, and
useful operating systems and software and emulating every vintage
system under the sun. A world -wide-network making the collecting and
maintainance of our hobby projects possible. Digital watches.
Yeah, we live in the worst of all possible worlds.
Christ. You guys are too cynical for me...
- josh
On Jun 11, 2009, at 1:10 AM, Zane H. Healy
wrote:
That strikes me as very odd. Why on earth would they do this?
-Dave
Most likely someone at DEC foresaw that the rise of the killer micros
was going to be as bad as it was, and managed to convince a few people
that IBM PC-compatibles and their consumer OSes were the future for
all.
I seriously hope that this is not true, and that nobody foresaw
computing as it exists today.
What's VMS's present estimated installed base, what was its
direction and rate of change in the last decade?
IIRC, they've claimed 400,000 for years, and at the same time
you're always hearing of customers moving off of it. The reasons
for the lack of new customers are totally the Corporate owners
fault. It has been on a decline for well over a decade. The
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