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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <7o7aptF3osjr8U2 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
> 
> 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.

   Cost of the 8 11/70 vs. cost of the 8 11/780 was a tiny part of the
   contract.  I don't know if they created justification for a protest,
   but when I came on the job I was sure glad to be using VAXen.