[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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