VAX Planning Model 1975:I didnít believe it

• The model was very good

  • 1978 timeshared $250K VAXencost about $8K in 1997!

• Costs declined > 20%

  • users get more memory than predicted

• Single user systems didnít come down as fast, unless you consider PDAs

• VAX ran out of address bits!

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