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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <3NCdnRdqNbJKzrzWnZ2dnUVZ_jmdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> 
> 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!

   VAX/VMS?  Newbie.  When I learned, "VAX" was allways followed by
   "-11".  As in VAX-11/780, VAX-11/VMS, VAX-11 Fortran, ...

   When DEC instroduced the 8000 series, it was just plain weird hearing
   "VAX 8...", instead of "VAX-11".