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

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In article <d86e0f77-a874-423f-8b41-e580db480d4e at c34g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>, Steven Schweda <sms.antinode at gmail.com> writes:
>Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>
>> Did anyone here ever try to run DECWindows on a VAXStation 2000?  The
>> Alpha Station 200 does it without even breathing hard.  Both machines
>> might be properly described as the slowest machines in their respective
>> architectures.
>
>   Well, duh.  How much newer is the Alpha system?  1995 -
>1989?  My VAXstation 2000 has 6MB of memory and MFM disks.
>(Anyone with a 12MB card in the free-to-good-home price range
>is welcome to contact me.)  My AlphaStation 200 4/233 has
>768MB of memory and fast-wide SCSI disks.  It certainly
>_ought_ to be faster, even if the CPU itself were not.

_My_ first VAX, but not the first VAX I had ever worked, was a VAXstation
2000.  It has 14MB, the expansion plate and an expansion cabinet.  I have
2 Maxtor-XT2190s (RD54s) MFMs.  DECwindows does load on it, albeit, it is
inordinately slow to start.  I used to us the quick boot feature when I'd
used this system to help shorten the boot time.  It was only B&W too.  I
remember I paid a pretty penny to get my hands on my own VAX too.  Anyway,
I eventually stopped using it with DECwindows.  Simple terminal access was
much faster.  Besides, it was just a box for hacking kernel code.  Crash-
ing production boxes was a no-no.

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