[geeks] DaveM: Crays up?

[Dave McGuire]

On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 02:48 PM, Eric Dittman wrote:
>>    I was largely out of the DEC world when they were pushing people to
>> Alphas (I took a hiatus of sorts from the DEC world between [about] 
>> the
>> time VMS 5.1 came out and 3-4 years ago) so I never saw any of this.
>> This is most disturbing.
>
> For applications that didn't rely on special hardware,
> the transition from VAX to Alpha was largely uneventful
> for VMS.  For ELN, the migration was to VxWorks, IIRC.
> I used VAXELN, but I didn't do any realtime on the Alpha.

   Huh?  VxWorks from WindRiver Systems?  Did DEC sell and/or support 
VxWorks?

>>    Ahh yes, listen to other CEOs instead of your customer base.  Way 
>> to
>> go, GQ.
>> Fucking suits.
>
> GQ just wanted to get DEC down to a point where he could sell
> it off.

   Fucking suits.  Unbelievable.

      -Dave

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