11 Feb
2009
11 Feb
'09
11:10 a.m.
cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org wrote:
Perhaps. In the case of DEC, it was because it was their
first watercooled machine. It had a somewhat reduced
performance counterpart codenamed "Aridus" (as in "dry").
That one shipped as the VAX 8800 series; Aquarius was canceled.
The VAX 88x0 was Polarstar (or at least the > 2 CPUs variant was).
The VAX 8700/8800 was Nautilus (conceptually the same as polarstar but
many backplane bits and the console [I think] changed along the way).
The VAX 8500 was Flounder (?) and apparently became Skipjack once they
took the NOPs out of the microcode ...
The VAX 9000 was Aquarius (and ended up as Aridus, I don't know what
changed
other than not piping water through it). Millstone would have been
better methinks.
IIRC it was a $4B project that sold of the order of 500 machines @ ~ $1M
each.
Antonio
Aquarius project?
Every computer company had an Aquarius project at some point.
That damn song...