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

[H Vlems]

On 14 dec, 22:38, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <3NCdnRdqNbJKzrzWnZ2dnUVZ_jmdn... at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net> writes:
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> > 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!
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>    VAX/VMS?  Newbie.  When I learned, "VAX" was allways followed by
>    "-11".  As in VAX-11/780, VAX-11/VMS, VAX-11 Fortran, ...
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>    When DEC instroduced the 8000 series, it was just plain weird hearing
>    "VAX 8...", instead of "VAX-11".

Yes, I remember that. Wasn't the 8600 actually named 11/790 initially?
Hans