Re:Sadder news for you (Score 1)

Phase IV was fine. Then along came Phase V DECnet. Every DECUS conference and every DEC presentation seemed to be dominated by Phase V DECnet - and nobody understood what it was for or why it was good. Most people didn't bother with it and once we had to co-exist with unix boxes that spoke IP we were screwed. In went Multinet, which was expensive and over time everything went IP

And with all the BS about DEC->Compaq->HP, and getting harder and harder to find anyone that knew anything about VMS or even courses to train peoplem, we just gave up.