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Re: Pr1me OAS again

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 > The other thing that sticks in my mind was a (commercial) helicopter
 > flight from Gatwick to Heathrow to catch my plane home.  My first and
 > only trip in a helicopter.

At one point we considered porting our application (in COBOL) from Prime
to VAX.  They loaned us a Microvax II to do a basic port, and then I was
mailed to Marlboro to the DEC benchmarking lab to run the thing on a
couple of types of machines.  IIRC I estimated around 30 users on an
8600.  Of course the thing that killed any chance of a port was the
reseller discount schedule -- Prime did a much larger percentage.

They put me on the DEC helicopter to get back to Logan for the flight
home.  Sat front and center, under the drip from the roof leak, watching
over the pilot's shoulder and loved it.

De

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  Re: Pr1me OAS again drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2023-11-30 01:32 +0000
    Re: Pr1me OAS again bill <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> - 2023-11-30 09:14 -0500
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