[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

Scott Dorsey kludge at panix.com
Fri Dec 14 09:48:57 EST 2018


Stephen Hoffman  <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>On 2018-12-14 07:21:20 +0000, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply said:
>
>> Back in the days of DECcampus, DEC salesdroids were telling 
>> universities  that unix was the future.
>
>They were right.

A few years before that, though, you had to work really hard to get them
to let you have Ultrix at all, and they got REALLY pissed off if you
bought a vax to run BSD or BRL Unix on.

Then it's like someone flipped a switch inside DEC and everything changed.
--scott


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