[Info-vax] Reading Gordon Bell's VAX strategy document

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On Mon, 2023-09-25 at 14:37 +0100, Paul Hardy wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> > What was the smallest VAX memory wise?
> > I think I have heard about 256 KB VAX 780's. Can anyone confirm?
> 
> I system managed VAX 11/780 serial 000047 in 1979. The original order
> was for 256K memory, but we upped it to 768K (3/4 MB) before
> delivery. It ran the complete computing of the company, including six
> programmers, and we sold time on it to at least four other high tech
> Cambridge companies
> -
> Shape Data, GDS, Nine Tiles, and whatever Dick Newell’s company was
> called at the time (CIS?).

I seem to remember Microsoft also used VAX machines to build Windows in
the early days. Was that true?
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