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

[Dave Froble]

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
>> -
>> 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?
>

Alpha Ultimate workstations (AlphaServer 1200) were used for the initial 64 bit 
WEENDOZE.

I seem to remember Gates and co using PDP-10 systems for some early stuff.  The 
early Basic for sure.

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