Seiler@MIT-XX.ARPA (03/01/84)
From: Larry Seiler <Seiler@MIT-XX.ARPA> I guess I should have explained. Last fall, DEC announced something called the "MicroVAX I" which contains a two board implementation of an 11/780. It uses a Q bus and has a small winnie and a dual floppy in the same package. It is not the same as the MicroVAX chip (which was called the "MicroVAX 32" in the talk I went to, but I thought "MicroVAX chip" would be more descriptive). There is yet another VAX chip set (8 chips), called V-11, that was also described at ISSCC. So that's three different VLSI VAX implementations, one of which is an announced product ("MicroVAX I"). I thought that the single chip VAX microprocessor would be of most interest to this bboard, so that was the only one I mentioned. The reason I brought it up is that there's been a lot of discussion of the 16000 and 68000 and I wondered if people feel these architectures are better or worse than VAX (or faster or slower), assuming that single chip 32 bit versions of all three were available. I will summarize messages sent to me if there is sufficient interest. Larry -------