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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
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Posted: Tue Jul 21 02:29:05 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jul-87 07:27:52 EDT
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Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley
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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.

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