heck, are 11/785s extinct?

From: Eric Dittman <dittman_at_dittman.net>
Date: Wed Jul 25 18:47:14 2001

> How many VAX-11/78x machines were produced?
> These days you expect that thousands of any machine would
> be sold (except maybe the specialised supercomputers).
> I believe that for the VAX 9000 series, only 400-500 made
> it out of the door. The same order of magnitude may well
> be true for the VAX-11/78x systems.

You can't base the VAX-11/78x system sales projections on the
VAX 9000 sales. The VAX-11/78x systems were very reliable and
worked well. The VAX 9000 systems weren't and didn't.
-- 
Eric Dittman
dittman_at_dittman.net
Received on Wed Jul 25 2001 - 18:47:14 BST

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