Microvax 2 chip set

[Ed Gould]

> The cpu chip, which implements the Microvax instruction set (i.e. VAX
> minus a few of the sillier things)

I understand that although the uVAX I has a restricted instruction
set, the II has the whole thing.  It's the fallout of a 5-chip
implementation of a 780 at 780 speed!  (The overall speed was targeted
at the wame as a 780 - a few instructions differ.)

> "When", you ask...  My source claims that announcement timing is the
> subject of hot debate, but the word is "months".
> -- 

I've heard that the announcement has been delayed from "soon" (early
'85) to June or July or so, with delivery around the end of the year.

> 				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
> 				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry

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