​It was world wide.   The /60 was the fastest machine from release to traditional product in DEC's history.​

​Indeed.  @ Tek we had both the DEC tools and the CMU tools and the 11/40e microcode from CMU (and the compiler that used csav/cret - probably still do somewhere).   One problem was the microcode compiler from DEC ran on RSX and CMU's ran on TOPS-10 of which I had neither.  ​

The /60 and /40 had similar but different base microengines and it was going to take some work reimplementing the CMU extens for the 60.   I've forgotten the details of what changed in the microengine, but something was hugely different and enough that the CMU microcode would have been a model, but would not work even if I could manage to get the tools together.     So, it was also on my todo list, but we got an 11/70 shortly after I pulled together the pieces and we never got to it.

What I can tell you from the CMU experience is that it bought a small amount of speed up, but the big thing code size reduction for some programs and on 40 class machine -- anything like that helped.   But... the problem was it made the binaries not portable.

We had to be very careful.   The EE production machines (which were 11/34 and later /34As) binaries of course could run on the CS systems, but the CS machines with the /40e microcode, compiler et al, created binaries that core dumped on the 34.   Worse yet, was accidently mixing libraries.

Ted and I talked about hacking the EE kernel to support a UUI like the FPs did could take the CS binaries and run them.   But that project never occurred - which was probably a shame.  Instead, Danny Klein and I got really good at purging any tape or disk that passed through a CS system for anything binary on it.

Clem