chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (01/22/88)
>richl@penguin.USS.TEK.COM (Rick Lindsley): >>Sure will be a surprise to teklds.tek.com, Roger! 4.3 does run on 8600's >>and 8650's so long as they don't have a BI bus. And as he says, 4.4 is >>reputed to even run on those nasty BI's. rogers@amadeus.TEK.COM (Roger Southwick): >Sorry about that! Rick is of course correct. I meant to say 87XX, and >not 8XXX. 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 There may be an 8750, but I do not recall it. Everything after 8350 above is suspect. The 8800, at least, has as its main bus something called the `MI' (Memory Interconnect) on which sit the CPUs, the memory, and up to 2 (at last count) DB88s, each providing two VAXBI busses. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris
phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) (01/22/88)
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