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From: AWalker@RED.RUTGERS.EDU.UUCP
Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax
Subject: Thought about V.A.X.
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Date: Mon, 9-Jun-86 17:02:40 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  9 17:02:40 1986
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It feels to me like the "VAX" name is already becoming historical in a way,
since the first vaxen were the VAX-11, or a glorified PDP11 processor and
in compatibility mode could still run PDP11 code.  So the eXtention was
to add the virtual memory scheme, was it?  But now that the new vaxes 
philosophically take this for granted, you can no longer truly refer to 
them as Vax-11s [which they don't], because most of the elevenish stuff has
fallen by the wayside...

_H*
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