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Re: Pr1me OAS again

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On 11/29/2023 8:32 PM, Dennis Boone wrote:
>   > The other thing that sticks in my mind was a (commercial) helicopter
>   > flight from Gatwick to Heathrow to catch my plane home.  My first and
>   > only trip in a helicopter.
> 
> At one point we considered porting our application (in COBOL) from Prime
> to VAX.  They loaned us a Microvax II to do a basic port, and then I was
> mailed to Marlboro to the DEC benchmarking lab to run the thing on a
> couple of types of machines.  IIRC I estimated around 30 users on an
> 8600.  Of course the thing that killed any chance of a port was the
> reseller discount schedule -- Prime did a much larger percentage.
> 
> They put me on the DEC helicopter to get back to Logan for the flight
> home.  Sat front and center, under the drip from the roof leak, watching
> over the pilot's shoulder and loved it.
> 

Having been involved in pre-sales competition with DEC using Pr1me
50-series I can assure you moving to a VAX would have been a losing 
proposition.  We beat out the VAX on every benchmark we ever did.
Sadly, we often found ourselves competing against, "I don't care
which machine wins as long as it says VAX on the front."

bill

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  Re: Pr1me OAS again drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2023-11-30 01:32 +0000
    Re: Pr1me OAS again bill <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> - 2023-11-30 09:14 -0500
      Re: Pr1me OAS again drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2023-12-07 00:19 +0000
        Re: Pr1me OAS again bill <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> - 2023-12-10 12:20 -0500
          Re: Pr1me OAS again drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2023-12-10 17:49 +0000
            Re: Pr1me OAS again bill <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> - 2023-12-10 15:10 -0500
              Re: Pr1me OAS again drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2023-12-11 03:44 +0000
                Re: Pr1me OAS again bill <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> - 2023-12-11 10:18 -0500

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