Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!Seiler@MIT-XX.ARPA From: Seiler@MIT-XX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: MicroVAX chip != MicroVAX product Message-ID: <17035@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-Feb-84 22:15:32 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.17035 Posted: Wed Feb 29 22:15:32 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Mar-84 03:31:51 EST Lines: 20 From: Larry SeilerI guess I should have explained. Last fall, DEC announced something called the "MicroVAX I" which contains a two board implementation of an 11/780. It uses a Q bus and has a small winnie and a dual floppy in the same package. It is not the same as the MicroVAX chip (which was called the "MicroVAX 32" in the talk I went to, but I thought "MicroVAX chip" would be more descriptive). There is yet another VAX chip set (8 chips), called V-11, that was also described at ISSCC. So that's three different VLSI VAX implementations, one of which is an announced product ("MicroVAX I"). I thought that the single chip VAX microprocessor would be of most interest to this bboard, so that was the only one I mentioned. The reason I brought it up is that there's been a lot of discussion of the 16000 and 68000 and I wondered if people feel these architectures are better or worse than VAX (or faster or slower), assuming that single chip 32 bit versions of all three were available. I will summarize messages sent to me if there is sufficient interest. Larry -------