[mod.computers.vax] hot rumors

McGuire_Ed@GRINNELL.MAILNET (01/17/86)

I've heard that DEC will be announcing two new processors this month:

- Followon to the uVAX II (uVAX III?), supposed to approach 11/785 class.
  BTW, has anybody heard if or when we might see 8MB uVAX II memory
  boards?  A 9MB 785 is a joke.

- New 8xxx class machine incorporating BI bus, which will apparently permit
  multiple tightly-coupled processors.  Seems to me that VMS could do
  process load balancing in such a configuration, since memory would be
  on the BI.  Or perhaps one processor handling context switching, one
  for system services, ...  But DEC is apparently planning to go beyond
  specialization to true coprocessing. (!)

Confirm?  Deny?

(Any disclaimers that you can think of apply)

sutter@OHIO-STATE.CSNET (Bob Sutterfield) (01/23/86)

>   BTW, has anybody heard if or when we might see 8MB uVAX II memory
>   boards?  A 9MB 785 is a joke.

Cadminton, Chrislin, and Clearpoint each have had ads in mags like "The DEC
Professional" for their respective 8Mb boards.