Happy Birthday VAX 11/780

[Dan Roganti]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:53 AM, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com>wrote:

> > Also, the sentence starting "The VAX instruction set well revered would
> later on influence" needs restructured. The paragraph after the bullet
> points has more of the same error.
>
>
ah yes,  Will can be so honest ;)

I think the missing point that hasn't been so well enunciated is the VAX is
a >minicomputer< and the IBM 360 is the >mainframe< - quite big difference -
perhaps should be specified in the blog. I hope this doesn't break any
hearts in the DEC community ;)

As far as mini's go, SEL had a 32bitter in '69
http://www.vintagecomputer.net/ragooman/computers_mini_products.html

Nice job though, Chris

=Dan
--http://www.vintagecomputer.net/ragooman/