AIX vs VMS
Keith Bierman - SPD Advanced Languages
khb at chiba.Eng.Sun.COM
Fri Mar 30 10:54:06 AEST 1990
In article <1956 at awdprime.UUCP> jerry at heyman.austin.ibm.com (Jerrold Heyman) writes:
...
A lot has been made about DEC's VMS running on all its platforms. Until
the 3100 came out, DEC had a lot of platforms, but only one
architecture.
This was never correct. PDP-11's are still orderable, the PDP-8 lived
on inside a WP machine. There was an FPS array processor option for
VAX. There was the Rainbow (8088/8080|z80 I forget), and more.
The vast bulk of their customer base did migrate to VAX fairly early
and stayed there, so DEC _is_ mostly VMS. But strictly speaking it
hasn't been a one architecture company for a long time.
But more than enough about DEC, this is an IBM group last I checked ;>
cheers
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