Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!ucbvax!info-vax From: art@ACC.ARPA Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax Subject: VAX-8200 Message-ID: <8511261452.AA19541@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, 25-Nov-85 23:45:00 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8511261452.AA19541 Posted: Mon Nov 25 23:45:00 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 27-Nov-85 00:23:24 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 36 Approved: info-vax@sri-kl.arpa It's about time for more rummors around the net... After rummaging through the VMS 4.2 fiche over the weekend, I thought that I'd mention a few things I saw. One of the next VAXen, code named SCORPIO, will be released as the VAX-8200. This machine will be based on the new BI bus. The BI will apparently attach a UNIBUS adapter, a BI disk controller and presumably memory. NAUTILUS will have up to four BI buses, but it's not clear what the architecture looks like. There was reference to an Ethernet controller named something like "DELUA". Does anyone know if this is the expected replacement for the DEUNA? There was also a reference to something called "LESI" which may be some type of bus adapter. Anyone have any more info? A conversation a couple of weeks ago brought up a machine called the VAX-8650 which is a faster version of the 8600. Anyone have any info when that might be released? Everytime I mention the RISC machine DEC is supposedly working on, I hit a stone wall. Anyone have any info? Also, there are rummors of a symetric, multiprocessor VAX (tightly coupled, not a cluster). This sounds like major work in VMS, if true. Anyone care to add to, or shoot these down? "Art Berggreen" ------