[Info-vax] OT: obscure PDP11 OSes (even more dinosaury)

[Michael Moroney]

Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:

>On 2015-06-15, Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl> wrote:
>> bill at server3.cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
>>>
>>> Of course, all of this still doesn't explain how the VAX was
>>> "a best-seller" when compared to the PDP-11 when the PDP-11
>>> sold 50% more systems.
>>>
>>
>> Because one VAX could do the work of several PDP-11's?

>In the early days of the VAX, wasn't there some literature floating
>around showing how the PDP-11 was faster at some things than the VAX ?

IIRC, the PDP-11/74 (multiprocessor PDP-11/70) was killed because it was
faster than a VAX 780 and would have eaten into 780 sales.