2 Feb
2007
2 Feb
'07
6:13 p.m.
As far as not buying VMS at a retail store.... I'm not sure if DEC's store
in the Manchester Mall in NH (or was it Nashua) wouldn't have been able to
sell you VAX/VMS in 83 if you came in with $250k and wanted to contract for
an 11/780.
Should've only taken a phone call to get someone to take the check. 8-)
Bill
On 2/2/07, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
Had it been anything but stillborn, it would
not have been
discontinued; IBM does NOT like to give up on a product.
IBM will give up on a product if it is stillborn. They will EOL (end
of life) them quickly if they want to kill them off. This really has
not happened to OS/2 until relatively recently. If OS/2 was stillborn,
IBM would not keep upgrading it over the years.
The fact that
it was not for sale in retail outlets for about the last ten years
should indicate it's acceptance rate. It sold poorly even when it was
the best O/S available.
You are not seeing the bigger picture. To add to my previous post -
no, you can not buy an AS/400 from a retail outlet either. You can not
buy VMS at one, for that matter.
Flopness is defined by long term monetary return of a product line.
--
Will