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

[Bob Eager]

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:47:36 +0100, Paul Sture wrote:

> 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 :-)

So did I; we got an 8800 and I saw s/w 11 stuff. I wondered how many 
models that had been there...now I know!




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