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

[Paul Sture]

In article <IweRJQ32IoED at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
 koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:

> 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.

One customer who was being funded by EU money was under intense pressure 
to buy an ICL system, but "Must run XYZ software" where "XYZ" only ran 
on VMS got them a pair of 11/780s, which was what they really wanted.

-- 
Paul Sture