[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

Single Stage to Orbit alex.buell at munted.eu
Sun Aug 19 20:50:47 EDT 2012


On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 01:41 +0200, Michael Kraemer wrote:
> > One of the first things I noticed with NT4 was the general advice to
> boot 
> > into DOS for burning CDs.  That alone made me question its
> suitability 
> > for replacing those VMS systems.
> 
> Until NT came along, people used VMS for burning CDs?

Well, at the time there were only 386s/486s out there and these didn't
have quite enough horsepower to let NT4 fly. With the later Pentiums,
NT4 worked very well indeed. 
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