[net.general] News of the week: DEC announces a mainframe

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
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