Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mtxinu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!cord!hudson!ihnp1!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!unisoft!mtxinu!ed From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) Newsgroups: net.rumor,net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Microvax 2 chip set Message-ID: <267@mtxinu.UUCP> Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 22:21:51 EST Article-I.D.: mtxinu.267 Posted: Tue Jan 15 22:21:51 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jan-85 10:44:19 EST References: <4880@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley, CA Lines: 21 Xref: watmath net.rumor:612 net.unix-wizards:11564 > The cpu chip, which implements the Microvax instruction set (i.e. VAX > minus a few of the sillier things) I understand that although the uVAX I has a restricted instruction set, the II has the whole thing. It's the fallout of a 5-chip implementation of a 780 at 780 speed! (The overall speed was targeted at the wame as a 780 - a few instructions differ.) > "When", you ask... My source claims that announcement timing is the > subject of hot debate, but the word is "months". > -- I've heard that the announcement has been delayed from "soon" (early '85) to June or July or so, with delivery around the end of the year. > Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology > {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry -- Ed Gould mt Xinu, 739 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94710 USA {ucbvax,decvax}!mtxinu!ed +1 415 644 0146