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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <hdidoj$skb$01$1 at news.t-online.com>, Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:

> These helped DEC to catch customers
> leaving VAX for Unix.

   Carefull, that supports a common misconception.  Lots of customers
   were running UNIX on thier VAX; we hired CS guys who learned on
   VAXen running ULTRIX.

   Customers left VAX for a variety of RISC processors, most of which were
   also running UNIX.