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

[John Dallman]

In article <01509bf320b2688f715eddaa48694ef329c67182.camel at munted.eu>,
alex.buell at munted.eu (Single Stage to Orbit) wrote:

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

Using big machines would have been more plausible in the earlier days of
Microsoft, when they produced BASIC interpreters and other languages for
8- and 16-bit micros, and did a lot of CP/M implementations. By the time
they were developing Windows in the mid- to late 1980s, the machines that
it ran on were more adequate for development than in the early days. 

John