News of the week: DEC announces a mainframe
rf at wu1.UUCP
rf at wu1.UUCP
Wed Nov 7 05:30:57 AEST 1984
Today's Electronic Engineering Times brings the news that DEC
has announced the VAX 8600 (Venus), a 4.2 million instructions/
second VAX. The machine costs roughly twice as much as a
VAX-11/780 and provides about 2.5 times the processor capacity.
The system can be equipped with:
32 million bytes of main storage
160 billion bytes of disk storage
512 communications lines
Randolph Fritz
UUCPnet: {ihnp4,decvax}!philabs!wu1!rf
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