Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.rumor,net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Microvax 2 chip set Message-ID: <4964@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Sat, 19-Jan-85 19:58:56 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4964 Posted: Sat Jan 19 19:58:56 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jan-85 19:58:56 EST References: <4880@utzoo.UUCP>, <267@mtxinu.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 18 > > 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. ... My informant, who's in a position where he ought to know, definitely identified the instruction set as "Microvax", not "VAX". Unless I misunderstood him... > 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. This is plausible. It sounds like the chips are pretty much ready to go; my source says some customers have samples for testing. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry