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From: rodman@mfci.UUCP (Paul Rodman)
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Subject: Re: In defense of the VAX
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Date: 27 Feb 89 15:46:48 GMT
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In article <1989Feb24.203711.16796@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>
>If you want another example, consider the VAX 730.  Compare it to the
>PDP-11/44, which uses the same size of box.  The 730 uses semicustom
>
>This seems like one hell of a price to pay for more address space...
>-- 

Yup, <sigh>.

When I finally got a chance to
disassemble a 8600 and look at it there happened to be a one of the
10k ECL based PDP10s in the same room. I looked down at the board in
my hands, crammed with LSI, and over at the poor '10.... and wondered what's
been going on for the last 10 years, besides the LSI, 32 bit 
word standardization and VM, none of which are due to the Vax...... ;-)


    Paul K. Rodman 
    rodman@mfci.uucp

It's a rumble!