11 Jan
2004
11 Jan
'04
5:07 p.m.
Reminds me of a question that runs through my head
occcasionally - did DEC
have a real reason for not calling it the /790 and instead
going with an
arbitary model number?
Well the VAX 8600 was very, very late by the time it
actually came out. There were rumours that they'd had
real trouble with the timings and had to slow it down
to achieve reliable operation (the VAX 8650 follow-on
was supposed to be when they actually sorted that out).
So my guess is that they wanted to make it seem all
shiny and new, rather than being 11/780 design redone
in ECL.
But since it's marketing, I guess we'll never know :-)
Antonio
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