8 Feb
2011
8 Feb
'11
11:25 a.m.
Roger Ivie [rivie at ridgenet.net] wrote:
During development of VAXBI, we were told (by the
folks
working on it) that it was A) not going to be VAX-specific
(DEC was moving MIPSward at the time) and B) would be open.
We were a bit startled when it was announced as "VAXBI".
It was never open (in the way that UNIBUS was) but it wasn't VAX-only
as the DECsystem 5800 (iirc) used it too.
Antonio