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

Richard Brodie R.Brodie at rl.ac.uk
Fri Nov 13 05:59:41 EST 2009


<BRAD at rabbit.turquoisewitch.com> wrote in message 
news:slrnhfpa8n.dkg.BRAD at rabbit.turquoisewitch.com...
> In article <77b4cc0c-85ab-4fab-9bfd-a1333099f95e at 37g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,

>>p.s. how many people know that Aquarius (VAX-9000) was originally
>>going to be a water-cooled machine? (Hence the name)
>
> We knew it was water-cooled when we bought two, because the computer room had
> to be modified to accomodate water-cooled equipment.

This is surprising, since the water-cooled design was scrapped,
supposedly before any were sold. Maybe they were prototypes. 





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