> Wintel hardware.. but wasn't it the same in the eighties? I thought
> VMS was for the minicomputers what Windows is for today's PC's.
> You had a VAX, you almost always had to run VMS on it. Today, 
> you have a PC, you almost always have to run Windows on it. 

there are many differences.  You could only buy a VAX from DEC, Ultrix and
Unix was available and like it or not VMS works.  That alone may be the
biggest differnce.

Allison