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That's not what I was trying to communicate. Rather that the options for online systems were generally: Mainframe, Mini (usually DEC), or Unix. Also, this was pre-Web "online", meaning for the most part in-house processing support.

I can attest to at least one case of VMS being retained in favour of Unix, which was retired. In the mid-1990s.

Go figure.



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