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

[Paul Sture]

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

> 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.

Every now and again a conversation about VMS will crop up somewhere on 
the internet, and folks invariably refer to it as "VAX/VMS".

-- 
Paul Sture