[Info-vax] Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks

[gah4]

On Wednesday, July 26, 2023 at 5:05:41 PM UTC-7, bill wrote:
 
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> I have always wondered why they created the VAX instead of continuing 
> development of the PDP-11. I mean, look what INTEL did taking the 8080 
> (or maybe even the 8008) all the way to x86-64. 

But VAX is the 32 bit extension of the PDP-11.  That is why they have
numbers like 11/780.  Some models have PDP-11 comparability (sic)
mode to run PDP-11 software. 

> But now I have to wonder why they didn't just continue development of 
> the 10 and 20. 
 
Partly, the world was moving to 8 bit byte addressable systems.  
Or at least an 8 bit character set.  

But yes, it seems that many wondered that at the time.