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

[Dan Cross]

In article <01509bf320b2688f715eddaa48694ef329c67182.camel at munted.eu>,
Single Stage to Orbit  <alex.buell at munted.eu> 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?

The early days of Windows NT are well-documented in the book,
"Show Stopper!" by G. Pascal Zachary.  In short, they used OS/2
and 386 machines; NT was self-hosting within a couple of years.

	- Dan C.