[Simh] VUPs?

[Norman Lastovica]

Quick Culter story as he told it (at least the parts that I remember)...

The 11/70 added support for a whole lot more memory with additional
physical address bits (virtual memory remained the same size
obviously) along with some other features.  The RSTS group apparently 
estimated some amount of time X to get support for the full 11/70 feature.
Cutler said that the RSX guys felt this was a pretty outrageous
amount of time and said so.

So he and one or two others implemented this full support over 
the weekend.  He then printed out an announcement of this support 
in RSX and put it on the desk of everyone in the mill.  He claims 
that while walking up the stairs with that armload of paper 
destined for the desks that Sunday evening he passed one of the 
RSTS managers (or at least someone involved) who was leaving and 
managed not to even crack a smile when he said "Hi" to the other guy.

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> Subject: Re: [Simh] VUPs?
> 
> Norman Lastovica wrote:
> > in at least one case that I can think of, a VAX was purposefully slowed
> > down in the microcode.  that is, at least, the rumor while I worked
there.
> 
> I know that DEC marketing was tempted to subterfuge and legerdemain on
> more than that occasion.
> 
> I think it was RSX-11D that was the bloaty full-price version, and
> RSX-11M that cost less, and was a superset of functionality.  When
> marketing tried to advertise that -11M didn't support the whole memory
> (or something like that) to retain -11D sales, Cutler legend is that he
> made his own announcement to the customers, telling them outright about
> the B.S. they were being fed.
> 
> I have this second hand from my father who was in that group at the time
> - some of you may have the details correct where I don't.
> 
> --
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