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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/25/2023 10:14 AM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> 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
> 
> I seem to remember Microsoft also used VAX machines to build Windows in
> the early days. Was that true?

Create cross-compiler/cross-assembler for VMS VAX and run
on a VAX 8000 series or 6000 series?

I have never heard about it. And I am skeptical about it - it seems
like lot of extra development and more upload/download for a
modest speed advantage.

Arne