VAX 8600 Was: Re: MicroVAX I

From: meltie <classiccmp_at_microvax.org>
Date: Sun Jan 11 16:26:15 2004

On Sunday 11 Jan 2004 10:22 pm, Antonio Carlini wrote:
> Also AFAIK, only the VAX-11/7xx series includes
> compatibility mode (although you need to know that
> the VAX 8600 was going to be the VAX-11/790 for
> this simple rule to work :-)).
> Antonio

Reminds me of a question that runs through my head occcasionally - did DEC
have a real reason for not calling it the /790 and instead going with an
arbitary model number?

alex/melt
Received on Sun Jan 11 2004 - 16:26:15 GMT