jimb@athertn.Atherton.COM (Jim Burke) (08/18/89)
Did anyone catch the recent announcement of the 9000 series by DEC?
It is DEC's supposed mainframe. I only saw an article in Digital
Review and it didn't give any info. Specifically, does anyone know
what operating system they plan to run on this machine? Any technical
details? If there is anyone truly in the know, a summary would be
nice if you have the time.
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{decwrl,sun,hpda,pyramid}!athertn!jimb | keyboard.avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio) (08/19/89)
There has been no announcement from Digital concerning any new computer with any such name. Fred
dave@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (David A Rasmussen) (08/19/89)
From article <2712@decuac.DEC.COM>, by avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio): > > There has been no announcement from Digital concerning any new computer > with any such name. > > Fred now now, I read the Digital News rag which says the 9000 is a air cooled outcropping of the aquarius and aridius machine, for whatever that's worth, and sport a 500-800 MB/sec system bus and 100MB/sec XMI i/o bus, and be about 30 VUP's. of course you can;t buy one at a kmart near you yet, so I suppose it still is vaporware. So whatever happened to that wafervax that I read about on april1? ;-) -- Dave Rasmussen, UW Milwaukee Computing Services Division. Uucp: uwmcsd4!dave, Inet: dave@csd4.csd.uwm.edu, Bitnet: dave%csd4.csd.uwm.edu@INTERBIT Bellnet: 414-229-5133. "Hey Mister, are you tall?" "Yes I'm tall but who are all you weird little wonders?" - Tom 'Tbone' Stankus.
grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) (08/19/89)
In article <3900@csd4.csd.uwm.edu> dave@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes: > From article <2712@decuac.DEC.COM>, by avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio): > > > > There has been no announcement from Digital concerning any new computer > > with any such name. > > > > Fred > now now, I read the Digital News rag which says the 9000 is a air cooled > outcropping of the aquarius and aridius machine, for whatever that's worth, > and sport a 500-800 MB/sec system bus and 100MB/sec XMI i/o bus, and be about > 30 VUP's. A survey of the "rags" will reveal there is still considerable confusion about the actual configuration, though it appears that DEC may be close to shipping something to somebody. I'd assume it'll run VMS, lest DEC's traditional user base run them out of town on a rail. One might hope it would also run Ultrix, however now that DEC is willing to sell their Unix base RISC MIPs at a competitive price, only captive VMS base will get to buy mega-buck MIPs... -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)
frank@croton.dec.com (Frank Wortner) (08/21/89)
In article <3900@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>, dave@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (David A Rasmussen) writes: > now now, I read the Digital News rag which says ... Please keep in mind that "Digital News" has no connection with Digital Equipment Corporation. Frank
dave@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (David A Rasmussen) (08/22/89)
From article <1449@riscy.dec.com>, by frank@croton.dec.com (Frank Wortner):
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# In article <3900@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>, dave@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (David A Rasmussen) writes:
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#> now now, I read the Digital News rag which says ...
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# Please keep in mind that "Digital News" has no connection with Digital Equipment
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I suppose now you're gonna say that what they print in the Enquirer isn't
correct either? ;-)
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