[rescue] Re: sunpci note: TWO cards now available

Harri Haataja harri.haataja at cs.Helsinki.FI
Tue Jan 29 23:56:13 CST 2002


On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 11:22:13PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On January 29, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> > ok, now you are in the danger zone for ignorance.  VMS may be confusing as hell
> > (trust me, i'm lost in it too) but it is one of the most powerful operating
> > systems you will ever lay eyes on.   it's not complicated for the point of
> > being complicated, it's a very complex system that does WAY more than anything
> > unix.  it's a shame to see it go.
> 
>   Is it "going" somewhere?

It's apparently going the way of Alpha.

Hewital DECpaq might just manage what DEC, Digital and even Compaq just
couldn't manage to do, no matter how hard they tried. (I'm sure someone
has the Sun hamster ad URL?) - Kill their biggest and baddest (and most
competitive) products.

FVO 'kill' nearing 'discontinue'. I'm sure there will be loads of fans
and users and old installations that haven't "yet" migrated and those
odd geeks that seem to collect all that crufty old stuff...

-- 
I once waxed the floors of a nursing home, pulled off all the rubber
feet on the walkers, and yelled "FIRE!"



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