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From: schaefer@puff.UUCP (Matt Schaefer)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: New high-end VAX
Message-ID: <625@puff.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Feb-86 20:02:11 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 15 20:02:11 1986
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Summary: it's true!

In article <275@spp3.UUCP>, brahms@spp3.UUCP (Bradley S. Brahms) writes:
> [}{]
> The other day, in a cubical near mine, I heard someone talk about a VAX
> 8800 that was about a 12 MIPS machine.  I think he also said that it was
> out for about a month.  I doubt this very much, but does anyone have
> information on it?  Is it a rumor as I suspect?

Yes, the VAX 8800 is a dual cpu (one for i/o, other for proccessing) that
does do 12 MIPS. One of my workmates went to a gathering sponsored by DEC
and was impressed at some of the things he heard. The 8800 uses the BI bus
to which only cpu's memory, and converters to other buses can be connected.
That is all I heard, except they are asking $600,000 for it.