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

[Paul Sture]

In article <4b2772d4$1 at news.langstoeger.at>,
 peter at langstoeger.at (Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER) wrote:

> 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

You may have digressed, but I learned something there :-)

-- 
Paul Sture