30 Jun
2010
30 Jun
'10
3:28 p.m.
... and it was a faster number cruncher than
VAX-11/780.
The VAX had higher potential as the new reigning super minicomputer. ?It
wasn't long after that I'd seen a VAX-11/782, 785 and VAXclusters.
I have to think that these later VAX machines and clusters were
certainly well in motion, even if unannounced, by the time this whole
11/70mp / 11/74 project came out. In a business perspective, it makes
a lot of sense why these weird-11s were not marketed.
I know almost nothing technically about these, so I ask - were these
multi-processor machines testbeds for ideas later seen (or not) in
other machines? Were they pet projects (DECBob)?
--
Will