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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <hfmaku$jjj$00$1 at news.t-online.com>, Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:
> 
> 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.

   We had a major system which was all VAX-VMS.  One of the maintenance
   contractors described them as computers that "can't run UNIX".  At
   the time DEC was shipping Ultrix for every model VAX they made.

   Some battles are not worth fighting.