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

[Michael Kraemer]

Bill Gunshannon schrieb:

> That worked both ways.  A company I was working for once lost a bid to DEC
> (we were bidding Primes) even though the machine DEC was bidding didn't
> even exist and while we ran all the required benchmarks and delivered boxes
> of fanfold paper with the results DEC provided a letter that said what the
> box would do, if it actually existed.  They won after we withdrew after
> hearing the contract representative say, "I don't care who wins as long 
> as long as it says VAX on the front of tthe box."  We got the last laugh,
> DEC was bidding VMS and the site wanted the box to run all   the free
> software they were going to get from Kitt Peak Observatory.  Yes, it was
> all BSD Unix software!!

So they could have run Ultrix on the VAX.