7 Jan
2007
7 Jan
'07
9:46 a.m.
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, 9000 VAX wrote:
Today I pulled out the boards in my vax 3800 and I
found 7 microprocessors
besides the CVAX. They are,
2x 68000, 8096, 80186, 2x 8086, Z80.
Just a little discovery to share with you.
I had noticed similar with XMI and BI boards, where one might see
combination of a couple of processors including a VAX chip along with an
AMD x86 clone or a 68k or Zilog processor.
I remember reading a description of the 'nexus' concept in some DEC unix
sources which seemed to indicate a prediliction for 'smart' boards.