rf@wu1.UUCP (11/06/84)
Today's Electronic Engineering Times brings the news that DEC has announced the VAX 8600 (Venus), a 4.2 million instructions/ second VAX. The machine costs roughly twice as much as a VAX-11/780 and provides about 2.5 times the processor capacity. The system can be equipped with: 32 million bytes of main storage 160 billion bytes of disk storage 512 communications lines Randolph Fritz UUCPnet: {ihnp4,decvax}!philabs!wu1!rf "Rust and moth are the only true Critics;" -- "The True Critics", Paul Edwin Zimmer