On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, J.S. Havard wrote:

> To make something that will be successful, it needs to be at a cost
> comparable to a PC, and give a little more performance (its a vax, of
> course it will!).  Let's not just cater to a select group of people, who
> love the Vax architecture, and don't want to see it die.  Let's make
> something that can be used by everybody, and won't cost them an arm and a
> leg, and a third and fourth mortgage.

I hate to do, this but somebody has to play Devil's Advocate.

You may make something that can be used by everybody, BUT, will anybody
(outside of VAX enthusiasts) use it? Taking an Analogy in the software world,
x86 Linux is only *just* starting to make an impact in the desktop world,
depsite the fact that techies have set them up as web servers all over the
world, sometimes without telling their bosses :-) If you do decide to go the
route of developing a new VAXen, you have to realise that its probably going to
take over a decade before it starts to make any sort of impact :-(

Paul
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