Macs and PCs vs workstations - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Aug 2006

On 8/6/06, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
...
  At 4:22 PM -0500 8/5/06, Scott Quinn wrote:
 >I'll give you Suns, I wasn't thinking clearly. They started going
 >downhill about 1998. 
Hmm... so you put the split at about the A3000/A5000 timeframe?  (I
was buying $$$$ in Sun equipment for Lucent in 1997 and 1998).

...
  Was it that far back :^(  Sadly most of the Suns I
have experience
 with are U60 vintage or older.  At the same time I'd be inclined to
 blame the U5 and U10 for when they started going downhill. 
I'd agree that U5s and U10s are built for the lowest cost possible.  I
used to use a U5 in 1999 - it did make a nice X-Terminal.  Glad I
didn't have to compile apps or do real work on it.

...
  Last version of OpenVMS for the VAX is 7.3, 7.3-1 is
Alpha only.  I
 believe the last version of VAX/VMS was 5.5-2H4.  Yeah, I'm picking a
 couple nits here :^) 
I've run 6.0 on a uVAX-II with an RD54... it was a *really* tight
squeeze, but it did (barely) fit.  I thought that VAX/VMS went up
through 6.x and stopped at 7.0, or was it 7.1?  Can't say for sure
without looking it up - since 7.0, I've been running VMS on Alpha
hardware.

-ethan