Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!clyde!watmath!watnot!watcgl!onfcanim!dave 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 Article-I.D.: onfcanim.15167 Posted: Sun Dec 28 14:48:57 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 28-Dec-86 21:47:33 EST References: <112@bnr-vpa.UUCP> <9200002@rmi.UUCP> <193@drilex.UUCP> <653@instable.UUCP> <166@pembina.alberta.UUCP> <657@instable.UUCP> Reply-To: dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale) Organization: National Film Board / Office national du film, Montreal Lines: 16 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.