10 Jun
2009
10 Jun
'09
9:52 a.m.
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Dave McGuire wrote:
The other amusing thing about which people here (at
least) should know
better is the visibility factor. VMS, OS/400, MVS, and VM are
*everywhere*...but people think they're somehow "dead" because the only
thing
they see in for sale in WalMart is PCs running Windows. Do these people
really believe PCs running Windows process their bank transactions, maintain
hospital databases, or run railroads?
I agree with this statement, and out side of this audience how many people
even know anything besides Windows exists? There are a lot of people that
think all computers run Windows.
As for people thinking certain OS's are dead, I just want to say that I
continue to be amazed that GCOS-8 is still alive. Though having worked as a
Systems Analyist on a DPS-8 running GCOS-8, I suspect the problem is the
difficulty people have getting off of it, coupled with the fact Group Bull
seems to have the brains to keep supporting it. I shudder to think what it
must cost a site to run a GCOS-8 system! I would also be interested in
knowing just how large of a user base there is.
Zane