DEC Design and implementation

25 Sep 1999

...
  Seriously the
hardware boys seemed to be just a touch off center for the 
realm.  Even the VT180, a very good CPM engine design they left off 
two sided (rev-H has it but I've never seen a real one) and that crippled 
disk expansion to the denser two sided media.    
 Bounded System:
 	A system which would be usable if it could be expanded...
 	... but it can't because it's bounded.

 					Megan Gentry
 					Former RT-11 Developer

Was it the hardware boys or was it the marketing types who said,
"Don't put that in.  It will steal sales from the higher commission
and higher priced xxx machine."

I can't believe hardware guys were responsible for single sided RX180
drives and the really lousy RX50's.

Bill

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  bpechter@shell.monmouth.com|pechter@pechter.dyndns.org
      Three things never anger: First, the one who runs your DEC,
      The one who does Field Service and the one who signs your check.

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