24 Oct
1999
24 Oct
'99
7:52 p.m.
Mike wrote (about VAX 7000 systems):
That's fascinating. Take obsolete hardware and
architecture (vax), and
keep them running! I guess I will never cease to be amazed at the weird
Dave McGuire <mcguire(a)neurotica.com> replied:
Obsolete hardware? Are you aware that they're
still being made? Systems
based on CURRENT technology, using CURRENT production techniques.
False. It's neither current technology nor current production techniques.
DEC hasn't developed a new VAX chip since the NVAX+ in 1992. It's seven
years out of date already.
Of course, that doesn't mean that it isn't still useful. But it's a
legacy system, not state of the art.