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From: ctp@pop.utexas.edu (Clyde T. Poole)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Vax processors
Message-ID: <8542@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Jul-87 11:30:22 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 22 11:30:22 1987
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References: <138@bernina.UUCP> <13413@topaz.rutgers.edu>
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Keywords: Vax, CPU, Speed, BI bus
Summary: The VAX 8600 doesn't have a BI bus

In article <13413@topaz.rutgers.edu> ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
>

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>The 8600 is one of the new VAX products.  The bus changed again (now called
>BI) and the box is generally much better mechanically.
>
>-Ron

Wrong! The 8600 does NOT have a BI bus.  It was the first of the 8xxx series
of machines and it along with the 8650 are the only ones that do not have
the BI bus. (I think :-) )
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