[SunRescue] Tape drive

[Kevin Lee]

Ok assuming I find a dec3000 where would i purchase a copy of VMS???
to run on it.

Kevin.


On Sunday, May 20, 2001, at 06:27 AM, Dave McGuire wrote:

> 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
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