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by nostrademons
3070 days ago
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To be fair, DEC was once in the same position as Google; in fact, by employee count, it was twice as big (140k vs. 70k) and by market share of the whole computing market (you could speak of a "computing market" back then), it was significantly larger. In the mid-80s, the idea that a VAX might be supplanted by a massive worldwide computation network of billions of computing devices would've seemed like science fiction. (Note that at its peak, Digital had only sold 400,000 VAX.) You could be fairly confident that storing your data in the OpenVMS filesystem would be fairly future-proof. When was the last time you saw a filename of the form NODE"accountname password"::device:[directory.subdirectory]filename.type;ver? |
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