[linux-users:00063] Re: vms++ (Re: unix+dos)

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> ＃ VAXって何ですか？ と聞かれると悲しい。

VAX /vaks/ n. 

2. A major brand of vacuume cleaner in Britain. Cited here because its
alleged sales pitch, "Nothing sucks like a VAX!" became a sort of
battle-cry of RISC partisans. Irorically, the slogan was {\it not}
actually used by the  Vax vacuum-cleaner people, but was actually that 
of a rival brand called Electrolux (as in "Nothing sucks like an
. . ."). It is calimed, however, that DEC actually entered a
cross-licensing deal with the vacuum-Vax people that allowed them to
marked VAX computers in th. U.K. in return for not challenging the
vacuum cleaner trademark in the U.S.

from The New HACKER'S Dictionary (The MIT Press 1991)

だそうで :-P 


1.[from Virtual Address eXtension] The most succesful minicomputer
design in industry history, possibily excepting its immediate
ancestor, thp PDP-11. Between its release in 1978 and its eclipse
by {\gt killer micros} after about 1986, the VAX was probably the
hacker's favorite machine of them all, esp. after the 1982 release 
of 4.2 BSD UNIX ( see BSD). Esp. noted for its large,
assembler-programmer-friendly instruction set -- an asset that became
a liability after RISC revolution.

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