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

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On Mon, 2023-09-25 at 13:27 -0700, gah4 wrote:
> > I seem to remember Microsoft also used VAX machines to build
> > Windows in 
> > the early days. Was that true? 
> 
> The early days of MS were on PDP-10s. The Living Computer Museum
> has the first KS-10 that MS used.  Paul Allen really liked the PDP-
> 10,and that was the first computer Paul and Bill did much of the work
> on.
> 
> I suspect that as DEC went to VAX, MS would have done that, too,
> but I don't know that one at all. 
> 
> I suspect that if they had a choice, it would have been PDP-10
> forever.

Yes, I misremembered for sure. Yes I think they did all their early 8
bit stuff on the PDP. Thanks. 
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