Comment by eigenhombre
2 days ago
We had one of these at CERN in the experimental physics group I was in 1990-1991. I had no idea they were rare or that the line was a failure. It was certainly faster than the other machines the group had access to at the time (except an onsite Cray, access to which was restricted only to members from "Western" countries for political reasons).
Our shop floor system is still written in VAX ACMS, using TDMS for menus, and Oracle Rdb for SQL.
I still have an account. It runs on the Charon emulator.
A little after your time, I wrote code on a DECstation 5000/240 running MIPS/Ultrix. I'm surprised that wasn't faster, and/or available to you.
The vector extensions might have been your niche though.