[Info-vax] Why it is a good idea that OpenVMS isn't on x86-64 just yet

[Hans Vlems]

The 11/750 was a nice cost effective alternative to the 11/780 at the time it was launched. The 11/780 had a serious price tag. Just the box itself with memory, no peripherals, would be around $750.000 (iirc :). For that money you had quite a nice 11/750 configuration at 60% of the performance and less than half the power bill. I cannot remember the cost of VMS and layered products, the 11/750 would save a lot of money there too I'd expect.
The 11/780 was just meeting its design specifications while rumor had it that the 11/750 was slowed down because without that it nearly ran as fast as the 11/780. 

Hans