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From: dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Architecture upgrade
Message-ID: <15167@onfcanim.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 28-Dec-86 14:48:57 EST
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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.

amos%nsta@nsc (Amos Shapir) writes:
>The brilliant idea was: 'let's not wait
>for native VAX software, PDP11 software should be just fine for the
>introduction phase'.

Let's not forget that the early emergence of the VAX line was also
very good for those of us that didn't (and still don't) care about
DEC-supplied software.  I doubt that DEC saw this as an advantage,
but they pretty much ignored UNIX* in those days anyway.


* In "those days", UNIX was a noun, not an adjective.