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

[Michael Kraemer]

Jan-Erik Söderholm schrieb:

> Well...
> 
> At my current client site, at project meetings, they are always
> talking about doing this-n-that "on the VAX", even if it is
> over 10 years since the last VAX was shut down. In the beginning
> a tried to explain that they are not running "a VAX" anymore,
> but I gave up... :-)

And some people over here were talking about "the Alpha-VAX",
probably as opposed to a true "VAX-VAX".
They referred to a VAX as a box which runs VMS.
So in their mindset the connection between VAX and VMS was much stronger
than between Alpha and VMS.