Smithsonian gets it wrong

[Julian Wolfe]

Well in any case, they could have chosen a much better example, it's all
yellowed and nasty, and they're making it worse with that fluorescent light.

I bet it's just a VAX chassis someone threw in the dumpster from this list.
There's probably not even anything in it, except a broken TK50.

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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Gordon JC Pearce
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 4:01 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Smithsonian gets it wrong

a.carlini at ntlworld.com wrote:
> Vassilis Prevelakis wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hello?? The label says its a *MICRO*VAX, and if its a uVAX, then its
>>not a mini.  Also, calling the baby-sized uVAX a mini gives visitors
>>who may have never seen a mini-computer the wrong idea as to what a
>>mini-computer looks like. Sure I'll accept that its *compatible* with
>>a VAX (I'll even ignore the minor business of emulating a small part
>>of the instruction set :-), but is not a VAX.     
> 
> 
> I'd not call the MicroVAX a mini, but it *is* a VAX. The 
> architecture was subsetted to allow some latitude in
> implementation, but user mode code did not need to
> worry about that: the instructions still worked.
> 
> A VAX, is a VAX, is a VAX.

Of course, of course,
And no-one can talk to a VAX of course,
That is, of course, unless the VAX is the famou

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