From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,985762be6fa32f22 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Improving Ada's Image Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:39:45 +0200 Message-ID: <1w30uj1o61b1b$.14nsztczdv1wv.dlg@40tude.net> References: <2k06c5F16ql15U2@uni-berlin.de> <40DC0CA6.5040704@noplace.com> <06OtmLncSDdl@eisner.encompasserve.org> <40DDDBE0.1080207@noplace.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de pA3Z7KeqH+1yEFEv50KiOAviC/4sTohaONsepQwnL0CdWtlWw= User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.12.1 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1970 Date: 2004-06-28T16:39:45+02:00 List-Id: On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:41:04 GMT, Frank J. Lhota wrote: > "Marin David Condic" wrote in message > news:40DDDBE0.1080207@noplace.com... >> If VMS ran on a PC (and other platforms besides DEC equipment) and it >> was available for what people tend to pay for a Windows or Linux >> installation (near nothing in many cases) it might have stood a chance. >> Even if VMS only ran on an Alpha, but you could at least buy one for >> around a grand (like you can with a lower end PC) and it came with all >> the end-user features one typically finds available on a PC - or can >> readily be obtained for a PC at a rational cost - it might have been a >> contender. But the Adult Supervision at DEC had other ideas - and where >> are they now? > > I have a brother-in-law who, while he worked at DEC, had an Alpha-based > laptop that ran VMS. I always wondered why this sort of platform was not > more heavily promoted by DEC. Did they made a PC from LSI-11? "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson (1977) -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de