27 Sep
2011
27 Sep
'11
2:40 a.m.
On 09/26/2011 11:13 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
It seems to me the point for the 7000 series was to sell very fast,
very high-end VAXen. The fact that the buses and chassis were (mostly)
compatible with the big Alpha systems was just good engineering practice.
Note that the very same thing was done with the PDP-11 family, yet
the whole point of the last of that line (the J-11 family) certainly
wasn't to sell more VAXen.
DEC tried pretty hard to sell my employer some VAX 7000 systems. At
the time, Alphas were barely mentioned, and they had been shipping for
over a year.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Sparc? Vax
was still going sort of strong.
VAX was clearly on the way out when NT 4.0 was released. The whole
point of the 7000 series VAX machines was to ween people off the
architecture and onto Alpha - and that was a couple of years before NT
4.0.