On 07/06/2017 02:01 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
On Jul 6, 2017, at 4:20 PM, Alan Frisbie wrote:
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TRAX was designed around a modified version of RSX-11M-Plus,
v1.0, yet no mention of it survives today. Indeed, a year after
its announcement, it appeared to have sunk without a trace.
I don't remember the exact timing, but my recollection is that
> TRAX was cancelled within a few weeks of when it first shipped.
That's pretty fast to kill a product! Do you have any idea what
the reason was? (Both the real reason and what was announced?)
It seems to me that a product would have been a good match for
the VAX, which was announced about the same time. I wonder why
that never happened?
Alan