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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Paul Sture wrote:
> 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".
> 

When some of us learned, "VAX/VMS" was the only VMS!  I think the VAX 
left a bigger foot print in the "history of computing" than its successors!