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From: amos@instable.UUCP (Amos Shapir)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Architecture upgrade
Message-ID: <657@instable.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Dec-86 03:01:51 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 24 03:01:51 1986
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Reply-To: amos%nsta@nsc (Amos Shapir)
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In article <166@pembina.alberta.UUCP> bjorn@alberta.UUCP (Bjorn R. Bjornsson) writes:
>It's easy to imagine that DEC would have been at least a year
>later in introducing the VAX without compatibility mode.  Makes
>you wonder what the world would look like today, if that had
>been the case.

This is *exactly* what I meant by 'brilliance'! There were many projects
that were so advanced they came out years too late because it took too
long to write the software for them. The brilliant idea was: 'let's not wait
for native VAX software, PDP11 software should be just fine for the
introduction phase'. It *is* a success, and you can't argue with that.
(Disclaimer: I do not, and never did, work for DEC).
-- 
	Amos Shapir
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