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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: New VAXen
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Date: Fri, 23-Sep-83 16:37:09 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 23 16:37:09 1983
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Dunno about the VAX 725, but I'd heard a little bit about the
Micro-VAX.  The nasty part is, the Micro-VAX is not going to be
a full VAX -- it's a VAX subset, because they just couldn't get
the revolting complexity of the VAX into a reasonable-sized
package.  (Compare the VAX 730 and the 11/44.  Same box.  The 730
chews up most of the interior, whereas the 44 leaves most of it
free for peripherals.  The 44 is built with standard parts, whereas
the 730 is loaded with custom chips.  And the 44 is quite a bit
faster for anything that doesn't need the big address space.  The
VAX is just too complex for easy, cheap implementations, and the
competition from things like 16-bit micros is starting to hurt DEC.)

The only new VAX (as opposed to Micro-VAX) I'd heard about is the
710, said to be about the same performance as the 730 (ugh) but
more compact, 11/05 sized.  I'll believe it when I see it.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry