> > 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. 

I can honestly say that on all the commercial stuff I have done
with PC's--I have always used some form of Unix since 1988.  I
could not handle the maintenence otherwise!  I have a machine 
running point of sale that has been there for 10 years and I have
never made a service call...  Yes, it is a 386/40 with 8MB and
supports 8 users...

> The VAX was supreme then, and it still is today- the most beautiful 
> architecture! 

Any machine that has a 4" binder to deal with it's Macro assembler
instructures has to be cool!  I keep thinking about the size of
the IBM mainframe binders though....  Maybe size doesn't matter in
all cases....