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

[Chris Townley]

On 26/09/2023 01:15, Dan Cross wrote:
> 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.

I still miss OS/2 - it was great to use, but a bugger to program the 
presentation layer, or whatever it was called

-- 
Chris