29 Jan
2013
29 Jan
'13
4:18 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:52:43AM -0500, William Donzelli wrote:
I normally killfile all your posts like many other people on the list but I
am testing a new email client and this got through anyway.
Here's the Ken Olsen interview at the Smithsonian. The word "mainframe"
doesn't appear at all, but "mini" and "minicomputer" are words he
uses to
describe DEC. I think he knows better than you, although I concede later DEC
marketers did make a feeble attempt to call the VAX 9000 a mainframe.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/comphist/olsen.html
Here's Gordon Bell's page at Microsoft. It's entitled "Minicomputer
Industry
Overview and Formation".
You won't see Bell claiming DEC ever built a mainframe either. He realized
DEC was in the minicomputer business.
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/Digital/DECMuseum.htm
Just because DEC's marketing people tried to convince people who never saw
anything bigger than a mini they had a new mainframe doesn't make it real.
DEC never made
a mainframe and nobody from DEC ever asserted they did AFAIK.
It's odd to see posts claiming DEC made mainframes or that VAX is big iron
from a group where calling a DE9 a DB9 produces a 500-thread post ;-)
Stop the hysterical revisionism. DEC made minis. Minis are not big iron.
VAX 9000 was marketed as a mainframe.
You may want to check your sources. I could write a post pointing out
all the fails you have made in the past few posts, but I have a
business to run (namely, so I can buy more mainframes).