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From: phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: 4.3 on VAX 8xxx?  The value of xxx
Message-ID: <20077@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 22 Jan 88 03:01:25 GMT
References: <4350002@wdl1.UUCP> <3007@zeus.TEK.COM> <148@puffin.USS.TEK.COM> <3010@zeus.TEK.COM> <10285@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
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In article <10285@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>Sort of.  There are also 82x0, 83x0, 85x0, and 8800.  Collectively
>these tend to get referred to as 8xxx.  The 8600 series is special,
>being after all an SBI Vax.  The full listing as I know it:
>
>	8200		(~= 780 speed; why would you want one?)
>	8250		(~= 785 speed.  " )
>	8300		(dual cpu 8200)
>	8350		(dual cpu 8250)
>	8500		? up to 4 cpus?
>	8530		? ? does it exist?
>	8550		? identical to 8500 but faster
>	8700		? up to 8 cpus, I think
>	8800		? up to 12 cpus, I think

I have this DEC VAX brochure, EA 30650-46/87 08 65 150.0 and 
leaving out the various vaxstations, it lists:

uV 2000			uV II without a bus
uV II			almost a 780, Q bus
uV 3500			2.7x a 780, Q bus
uV 3600			3500 in bigger box
8250			about a 780, BI/Unibus
8350			2 8250 CPUs
8530			4x a 780, BI/Unibus
8550			6x a 780, BI/Unibus
8600			4.2x a 780, SBI/MASS/Unibus
8650			6x a 780, SBI/MASS/Unibus
8700			6x a 780, BI/Unibus
8800			2 8700 CPUs
8974			4 8700 CPUs
8978			8 8700 CPUs

Well, if I can't run BSD on it, I think I'll buy a Sun-4.
Foo on DECNET. And LAT.

-- 
The VT220 keyboard sucks, but the VT320 is usable. 
DEC finally got it right!

Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or phil@amd.com