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

Single Stage to Orbit alex.buell at munted.eu
Tue Sep 26 03:38:08 EDT 2023


On Tue, 2023-09-26 at 00:15 +0000, Dan Cross wrote:
> > 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.

Yes thanks, looks like they did use PDPs for the early 8 bit stuff. 
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