1 Jul
2010
1 Jul
'10
6:51 a.m.
On 06/30/2010 06:28 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
Well you know the VAX11/70 announcement date it's easy to work backward by
18months to two years to get to a design start date. Since the
announcement was
introduced on October 25, 1977 we are looking at late 1975. There is
much overlap
in he time lines.
Also the supposed picture of the 70mp is the same cab style and colors
of the
post 780 era.
... 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)?
VAX SMP machines and later and Clusters of DEC36bit machines may have been.
Allison
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Will