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From: medin@ORION.ARPA (Milo S. Medin, NASA ARC Code ED)
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Subject: Re: VAX-8200
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Well, the rumours I have heard confirm everything you have said.  The
DELUA is supposedly a faster ethernet controller and (hurray!) takes
about 1/2 the power of a DEUNA!  I'm not sure whether its a single board
now, but probably is.  

The BI machines have been worked on for some time now, they are supposedly
fast, but since its new, you'll have to use DEC peripherals on them (Yuk!
Hopefully Emulex will have new controllers out for them soon).

I've also heard rumours about something called Andromeda.  Any
details from someone out there who hasnt signed a non-disclosure
agreement?  Its supposed to be real fast.

Of course, everyone's heard about the TITAN right?  Its a RISC
machine that runs blindingly fast.  Not a VAX though, but I hear
it runs 4.2 real well.  They gave up trying to port VMS to
it, so I'm not sure it'll see market...

Of course, none of this stuff is official and only heard through
other discussions on the net, and no briefings by DEC,
so I can't be sure about any of this.  DEC tends to be
tight-lipped about this sort of stuff.  But it all looks quite
good.  DEC has put a ton of money into developing sophisticated
CAD/CAM tools, and its really upped their engineers productivity
a lot.  You should start to see a bunch of machines being
announced in a relatively short period of time.  I think
DEC stock would be a good investment.

				Milo

PS  Maybe they'll even shed themselves of VMS some day and move
on to a real operating system...  :-)