[Info-vax] Internationalization

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Tue Jan 1 09:58:37 EST 2019


On 1/1/2019 3:00 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 12/31/2018 11:44 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 
>> But I don't think it count for that large part of
>> the VAX market. I don't think I have ever heard of
>> anyone going from PDP-11 to VAX. I still believe
>> there must have been some somewhere.
> 
> You don't get out much, huh?
> 
> My experience is that a rather large part of VMS adoption was from those 
> using PDP-11.  Many of the RSTS users moved to VMS.  There was much more 
> than a few.
> 
> Basic+
> BP2
> VAX Basic
> 
> The progression was available, many used it.

I remember VMS sites:
* a lot of first computer
* a few migrations from CDC
* a few migrations from IBM
* a few migrations from PDP-10

But PDP-11 was supposedly very popular and some of them must
have migrated to VAX.

Arne






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