Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cmcl2!beta!hwe
From: hwe@beta.UUCP (Skip Egdorf)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Sun 4/60?
Summary: marketing and 4/60s
Message-ID: <15396@beta.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 88 04:33:19 GMT
References: <15349@beta.UUCP> <1685@aurora.UUCP>
Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
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In article <1685@aurora.UUCP>, jaw@aurora.UUCP (James A. Woods) writes:
> 
> ...  e.g. the internal codename
> for the 4/110 was "cobra"...
> ...
> the model number,
> as well as the "marketing mips" gets stamped on
> only at the end.

How many remember when the new smaller VAX was about to be announced.
It was well known to the trade that the code name was the "comet",
however the press (You know, Computermation and Dataworld) assured
us that the machine would be known as the VAX-680, with the follow-on
super ECL VAX (The "Venus", just being designed) being the VAX-980.
It was rumored that the name VAX-11/750 was chosen a) at the very last
minute, and  b) because it was the name/number LEAST chosen by the
rumor mills.

How much of the sales generated by a new machine are due to its
architecture, and how much are due to choosing the proper name :-)

					Skip Egdorf
					hwe@lanl.gov