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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: VAX 9000 series
Message-ID: <7707@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 19 Aug 89 07:57:52 GMT
References: <2712@decuac.DEC.COM> <3900@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <3900@csd4.csd.uwm.edu> dave@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes:
> 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.

A survey of the "rags" will reveal there is still considerable confusion
about the actual configuration, though it appears that DEC may be close
to shipping something to somebody.  I'd assume it'll run VMS, lest DEC's
traditional user base run them out of town on a rail.  One might hope it
would also run Ultrix, however now that DEC is willing to sell their Unix
base RISC MIPs at a competitive price, only captive VMS base will get to
buy mega-buck MIPs...

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