| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 684.1 | See ASIMOV::MARKETING | QUARK::LIONEL | Ad Astra | Fri Dec 30 1988 00:08 | 3 |
| There's a recent note in ASIMOV::MARKETING on this topic.
Steve
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| 684.2 | Brand name recognition | WOBBLE::CROWLEY | David Crowley, Chief Engr's Office | Tue Jan 03 1989 15:28 | 8 |
| Re: .0
An aside: to me, the most remarkable thing about the radio
news report mentioned in .0 was the it referred to
a "VAX 8800", as opposed to a "Digital VAX 8800 computer."
I guess NPR News figures that everyone knows what a
VAX is, and even knows who makes it.
--djc--
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| 684.3 | Digital? They make watches, don't they? | QUARK::LIONEL | Ad Astra | Wed Jan 04 1989 00:57 | 7 |
| Re: .2
No, the more likely case, supported by many experiences I have had,
is that NPR believes that the computer was made by "The VAX
Corporation". Everyone knows VAX, nobody knows Digital.
Steve
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| 684.4 | | COVERT::COVERT | John R. Covert | Wed Jan 04 1989 13:08 | 7 |
| > NPR believes that the computer was made by "The VAX
> Corporation". Everyone knows VAX, nobody knows Digital.
You may be right, even though NPR uses a VAXcluster and most everyone
(especially the news staff) has a VT2xx or VT3xx on their desk.
/john
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| 684.6 | Vaccumn Cleaners | SYSEFS::MCCABE | Mgt is still your best entertainment value | Wed Jan 04 1989 14:37 | 3 |
| Virtual Address eXtention or Virtually A X (ten) depending on
who you ask.
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| 684.7 | | BIGMOE::XIA | | Wed Jan 04 1989 14:40 | 5 |
| By the way, what does VAX mean or stand for? Also there seems to
be a systematic way of numbering them (e.g. 8800, 8650, 8600 and etc).
What is that system?
Eugene
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| 684.8 | | BIGMOE::XIA | | Wed Jan 04 1989 14:44 | 4 |
| re .6
Thanks. (By the way, .7 should go before .6).
Eugene
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| 684.9 | It belongs in a different topic/conference | DR::BLINN | No abusing the abos if anyone is looking | Wed Jan 04 1989 18:18 | 9 |
| Actually, .6, .7, and .8 all belong in a different topic, if
not in a different conference, as they are a digression from
this topic. Perhaps ASIMOV::MARKETING for the issues of how
product names get selected (there is supposed to be a method
to the madness, but it is rarely obvious), and just maybe the
EAGLE1::VAX conference for the broader question of "What's
a VAX?".
Tom
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| 684.10 | virtual address extension | EAGLE1::EGGERS | Tom, VAX & MIPS architecture | Thu Jan 05 1989 03:59 | 8 |
| The original, "VAX-11", stood for "virtual address extension" of the
PDP-11. I have never heard of any changes to this, other than humorous.
And please don't take this topic to the VAX conference. I don't want it
there either.
Tom Eggers
VAX Architecture Manager and VAX-conference moderator
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| 684.11 | Ask ENET | HWSSS0::SZETO | Simon Szeto @HGO, Hongkong | Thu Jan 05 1989 10:32 | 6 |
| re last few:
ANYWAY::ASKENET. You can ask almost anything there.
--Simon
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| 684.12 | "You mean a 3174 is NEWER than a 3274?" 8-) | MISFIT::DEEP | Sometimes squeaky wheels get replaced! | Fri Jan 06 1989 16:58 | 5 |
| re : .8
>> (By the way, .7 should go before .6).
No, no... That's IBM's numbering system! 8^)
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| 684.13 | | CVMS::DOTEN | I'll sue ya! Ohhh, superstitious eh? | Fri Jan 06 1989 22:45 | 7 |
| RE: .12
We can't really throw stones. Our "glass house" has had the RRD50
CD reader on the market for a number of years now. The brandy new (and
presumably improved) CD reader is called an RRD40. :-)
-Glenn-
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