[SunRescue] Tape drive

[Dave McGuire]

On May 20, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> If I ever get my hands on a spare alpha, I'll try it.  Somehow I doubt
> that VMS is going to make much of a come back though.  For starters, it
> would need to run on something cheaper than the sorts of machines it
> currently runs on, and I don't think compaq is interested in doing that.

  Hmm...you sound as if VMS is "out".  Sure, it's not the mainstay of
the Internet like Unix, nor is it the mainstay of cheap game-playing
machines like PeeCees...but I personally know of literally hundreds of
VMS installations, with most running on very modern hardware.  There's
a lot more VMS out there than most people around here might think.
For some applications, it's simply the right tool for the job.

  (It's easy to think of anything that we don't see day-to-day as being
rare, obsolete, or esoteric.  I'm guilty of it sometimes myself.)

  For trying it out, though, even a DEC3000/300 is enough horsepower
to get started.  Give it a shot...I bet you'll like it! :-)


         -Dave McGuire