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

[Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER]

In article <04dd1004-2966-426e-9670-607e9a6e4e4f at m25g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>, H Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> writes:
>Yes, I remember that. Wasn't the 8600 actually named 11/790 initially?

Yup. But the name kept internal (in files etc.), but "8600" got announced

In real it was a 11/790 because it had the PDP-11 compatibility mode in h/w.
The remove of the -11 from the VAX name was due to the removal of the
compatibility mode from the hardware (and PDP-11 compatibility went s/w).

But I digress

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