More at DECsystem 5800's

[George Robbins]

Well, the new System and Options guide is out, contact your friendly
DEC sales office for a copy.  It lists all the new VAX and Risc based
stuff announced to date.

There are some changes from what has been reported previously:

The 5810/20 come in two pre-configured flavors.  One includes RA70
drives mounted in the CPU cabinet, the other includes bundled RA90
drives, in a separate cabinet.

The SA70 subsystem is also available for the VAX 6000 series, though
perhaps not part of any preconfigured system.  This is *not* the new
high-end multiple RA70's acting like a big, fast disk, rather it's
just a (1 or 2) mountings for sets of (1 to 4)  each regular SA70's
connected thru (1 or 2) KBD50's.  It may still make sense where you
want to minimize drive contention on "system" disks.

The 5800 systems are configured with a single BI bus driving a new
11 slot BI cage in the main cabinet, rather than the traditional pair
of 5 slot cages.  I wish the latter was available as an option, but
they do get the mega-mips 5800's prices at the 6200 levels, so I
should complain?

The rehashed 6200 a.k.a 6000 model 210 (more IBM'isms?) is now
configured with only one 5 slot BI cage and a TK70 tape drive.

The 5400 series looks very nice and is an obvious upgrade for anybody
running Micro-VAX or 725/730/750/8200/8300 systems.  Its more powerful
than any of the higher end VAX/Ultrix systems in the CPU department,
but there are real I/O configuration / Memory limits, not to mention
ego adjustment problems in trying to replace a "real VAX" with a
Q-bus/DSSI based "micro".

No information about the new 32-port econo DECserver 300 here, must
be a network product or something.  Rumor has is that it's DEC423
only, so it's probably just a hyped up 200 in the same box.  I don't
have any use for DEC423, but maybe it'll make used DS200's real cheap.

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