Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!hao!ames!lll-lcc!unisoft!mtxinu!ed From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Vax processors Message-ID: <463@mtxinu.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Jul-87 02:29:05 EDT Article-I.D.: mtxinu.463 Posted: Tue Jul 21 02:29:05 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jul-87 07:27:52 EDT References: <138@bernina.UUCP> <13413@topaz.rutgers.edu> Reply-To: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley Lines: 15 Keywords: Vax, CPU, Speed >The 8600 is one of the new VAX products. The bus changed again (now called >BI) and the box is generally much better mechanically. The 8600 (and 8650) is not a BI machine, it's a multiple-SBI machine with its own bus (called an Abus). The BI Vaxen are the rest of the 8000 series: the 8200/8250, 8300/8350 (a dual-processor 8200), 8500/8550, 8700 and 8800. (The 8x50 machines are faster versions of the 8x00's, but are otherwise the same.) The 8200 and 8300 are simple (single-) BI machines; the 8500, 8700, and 8800 support multiple BI's. -- Ed Gould mt Xinu, 2560 Ninth St., Berkeley, CA 94710 USA {ucbvax,decvax}!mtxinu!ed +1 415 644 0146 "A man of quality is not threatened by a woman of equality."