> There's an apocryphal story about someone handing Olsen one of the pre-Alpha VAX-on-a-chip designs and he has a very polite mini-meltdown when he realises tha

> There's an apocryphal story about someone handing Olsen one of the pre-Alpha VAX-on-a-chip designs and he has a very polite mini-meltdown when he realises that it literally outperforms the top water-cooled mainframe ECL VAX hardware - for just a few hundred dollars, instead of a couple of million. There is a fair bit of history [1] written by the author of the SIMH emulator, Bob Supnik. The page on NVAX basically confirms your story. [1] http://simh.trailing-edge.com/dsarchive.html http://simh.trailing-edge.com/dsarchive.html