[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <TZ9Uz01NBwVB at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <hfbv5h$lt8$2 at naig.caltech.edu>, glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
>> 
>> So you don't count VAX as a separate architecture, or not a PDP?
> 
>    I saw a contract written as PDP-11/70 that was changed to
>    PDP-VAX-11/780 as a change that the contracting officer could allow
>    (both parties wanted it).  

Auditor would have had a field day with that one.  Contract should have
been re-competed as the two are hardly equivalent and there actuall is
no such thing as a PDP-VAX.  I can't believe there wasn't a protest filed.

>                               I also know a fellow who calls his
>    VAX 4000 systems "the PDPs".  And I used compatability mode on my
>    11/780 both for pieces of early VMS, and to run tasks I built on 
>    my 11/34, but I don't know anyone on c.o.v who seriously thinks 
>    of VAX as a PDP.

Or any PDP-11 afficianado who would either!!  :-)

bill
 

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