[Info-vax] Unix on A DEC Vax?

[Michael Kraemer]

In article <am57kqF4ri3U5 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill
Gunshannon) writes:
> 
> Hmmmm...  My first DEC Workstation was a DECStation (MIPS based) and
> it ran only Ultrix, no VMS that I was ever aware of. 

VMS was never ported to those Mipsen.
Maybe DEC should have done it, 
rather than pursuing this expensive adventure
called "Alpha"?

> Next came the
> VAXStation3100. 

Wrong order. The VS3100 preceeded the DECstations.

> I got a pile of them.  Run Ultrix just fine.
> Perform
> marginally with VMS.  I have heard the "Desktop to datacenter" mantra
> but did they really take that seriously?
 
In technical/scientific computing of the late 1980s
one or two central VAXen serving one or two dozen VS31xx 
was a very regular setup. Nobody, especially younger people,
wanted dumb VTxxx anymore. DECwrite and friends was rather popular.
Some of that stuff also made it into Ultrix.