VAX range extended
The world’s second largest computer manufacturer, Digital Equipment Corporation, has announced three new models in its VAX family of computers, the company’s main product family. One of the models, the VAX 8800, is the most powerful VAX processor yet produced and is powerful enough to compete with some of the largest mainframe computers available.
The 8800 can process from 10 to 12 million instructions per second. It comprises two tightly coupled processors that work as one.
Digital’s earlist VAX processor, the VAX-11/ 780, has finally been put
out to pasture with the arrival of another new VAX processor, the VAX 8200. The VAX 8200 delivers about the same performance as the 780, but is smaller and cheaper. The third new processor, the VAX 8300, is 80 per cent more powerful than the 8200.
Digital calls the new products “new generation” processors that include a faster, more reliable way of connecting the processors to their peripherals. Industry observers have long awaited the new announcements. The VAX 780, now relatively oldfashioned technologically, has been due for replacement for a year or two.
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Press, 11 February 1986, Page 29
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