On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 12:24:43PM -0700, John Rollins wrote:
> What fun! I got a book called "VAX-11 Assembly Language Programming."
> What's a VAX-11?
"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
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