Smithsonian gets it wrong

Witchy witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk
Sat Nov 12 19:28:59 CST 2005


On Sat, November 12, 2005 7:15 pm, a.carlini at ntlworld.com said:

> 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.

I'll prove that (again) on monday when I boot a 6660 using a system disk I
created last night using a uVAX 3100-90 :)

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