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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Y VAX? [was : TECO on a DEC-System 10]
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Date: 18 Jan 90 17:57:56 GMT
References: <153.UUL1.3#5131@mvac23.UUCP> <457@ns-mx.uiowa.edu>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
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In article <457@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) writes:
>    VAX-11/780  -- a new name for the PDP-11/78 project, coined when it
>                    was realized that so many changes had been made to
>                    the original PDP-11 architecture that the pretense
>                    that the machine was upwards compatible was no longer
>                    credible.

But it was upward compatible -- the VAX had a PDP-11 emulation mode which
I made heavy use of. Also (and this is subject to dispute) the original 
VMS operating system ran in PDP-11 emulation mode. Well, maybe parts of it
did. At any rate, we used UNIX.

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
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