Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!dave@csd4.csd.uwm.edu From: dave@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (David A Rasmussen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: VAX 9000 series Message-ID: <3900@csd4.csd.uwm.edu> Date: 19 Aug 89 02:56:46 GMT References: <2712@decuac.DEC.COM> Sender: news@csd4.csd.uwm.edu Reply-To: dave@csd4.csd.uwm.edu Lines: 21 From article <2712@decuac.DEC.COM>, by avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio): > > There has been no announcement from Digital concerning any new computer > with any such name. > > Fred now now, I read the Digital News rag which says the 9000 is a air cooled outcropping of the aquarius and aridius machine, for whatever that's worth, and sport a 500-800 MB/sec system bus and 100MB/sec XMI i/o bus, and be about 30 VUP's. of course you can;t buy one at a kmart near you yet, so I suppose it still is vaporware. So whatever happened to that wafervax that I read about on april1? ;-) -- Dave Rasmussen, UW Milwaukee Computing Services Division. Uucp: uwmcsd4!dave, Inet: dave@csd4.csd.uwm.edu, Bitnet: dave%csd4.csd.uwm.edu@INTERBIT Bellnet: 414-229-5133. "Hey Mister, are you tall?" "Yes I'm tall but who are all you weird little wonders?" - Tom 'Tbone' Stankus.