[HECnet] NT 4 on AlphaServer es40

[Steve Davidson]

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On Feb 12, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Clem Cole wrote:


On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:47 AM, 
<Paul_Koning at dell.com<mailto:Paul_Koning at dell.com>> wrote:
Nothing.   It was one of the most spectacular failures in DEC 
history.   A whole new OS (well, based on RSX I believe) and 
new hardware designed specifically for it (VT62), canceled a 
week after it was first announced.

Interesting, I always though the 11/60 held that honor.

Hm...   All I know about the 11/60 is that there were a few of 
them around the building I worked.   One of them was used by 
WPS-8 development (running RSTS) -- because the 11/60 was the 
fastest PDP-8 ever built thanks to custom microcode that 
implemented PDP-8 emulation.

paul



The PDP-11 FORTRAN development group used the 11/60 to run RSTS on.

-Steve