From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Title: Re: SuperVAX Article-I.D.: ucbvax.7829 Posted: Wed Jun 30 06:48:51 1982 Received: Thu Jul 1 05:15:31 1982 >From Samuelson@SANDIA Wed Jun 30 06:43:24 1982 The way I understand things, the VENUS is the VAX developed along with the JUPITER. The JUPITER is running around 10 MIPS, and should be announced this year. (The JUPITER, in case you dont know, is the new DEC-20). The VENUS could NOT take advantage of some of the good stuff in the JUPITER (Pipelining variable length instructions costs much more than pipelining fixed length instructions), so the VENUS, from the rumors I heard, was running only around 2 MIPS. I have heard that there is another large VAX under development, aimed at around 4 MIPS. Now the question is, will DEC announce the 2 MIP machine, or will they wait for the 4 MIP machine. All of the above information is based on rumors that I have heard, outside the bounds of any non-disclosure agreement, so I give it with absolutely no guarantees of its accuracy. - Sam - -------