[Info-vax] DEC Large Systems

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 6/27/19 8:08 AM, m. thompson wrote:
> On Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 7:50:51 AM UTC-4, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> Another question born out of curiosity.
>>
>> I was looking at a catalog called Large Systems Software
>> Referral Catalog (Fourth Edition) from 1984.
>>
>> It lists DECsystem-10, DECSYSTEM-20 and VAX. (notice the
>> curious spellings used by DEC themselves  :-)
>>
>> What exactly did the VAX offer or what shortcomings were
>> seen in the 10 and 20 that caused VAX to become the hero
>> and the other large systems to go away?
>>
>> bill
> 
> There was no good technical reason to kill the development of the next generation of the PDP-10 in favor of the VAX. This was purely a marketing and product management decision.
> 


I suspected as much.  Thank you.

bill