VAX-11? and some C64 stuff

On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 12:24:43PM -0700, John Rollins wrote: "The" original VAX. The original model of the VAX announced in 1977 was called the VAX-11/780, followed by various configurations (11/782=Dual CPU version; 11/784=Quad CPU version). There was also a much smaller, slower, cheaper version later called the VAX-11/750. They were in some ways meant to be 32-bit versions of the PDP-11 processor, with lots of "extras". The VAX-11's had PDP-11 compatibility modes, in fact, to ease the transition to 32 bit. Of course, PDP-11s lived on for many years after the VAX was introduced, but a lot of people are still sore over the way DEC killed off (or allowed to be killed off?) their 36-bit line (PDP-10) in favor of the VAX. -Seth -- "As a general rule, the man in the habit of murdering | Seth Morabito bookbinders, though he performs a distinct service | sethm(a)loomcom.com to society, only wastes his own time and takes no | personal advantage." -- Kenneth Grahame (1898) | Perth ==> *