VAX 8600 added to the VCF Archives

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Sat May 1 17:07:45 1999

At 02:35 PM 5/1/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Bah, it's a VAX, it should be running VMS. I totally fail to understand
>why, especially now that licenses are free for hobbyist use, anyone would
>want to run UNIX on a VAX! A system like that should be part of a nice VMS
>cluster!

Because to some of us VAX == UNIX ? I did my first UNIX port from a VAX780
running 4.x BSD to a DG machine. UCBVAX ran UNIX and all of the other Vaxen
I had access to ran UNIX. The "cool" people hacked UNIX on the VAX, the
"suits" used VMS and Datatrieve to print accounting records and such, what
fun was that?

--Chuck
Received on Sat May 01 1999 - 17:07:45 BST