New DEC announcement, 7/11

[George Robbins]

In article <18553 at mimsy.UUCP> steve at fnord.umiacs.umd.edu (Steven D. Miller) writes:
> 
> 	3) DECserver 5810/DECserver 5820.  Features:
> 
> 		BI bus as I/O bus
> 		Packaging identical to VAX 6000 series (yes, CPU swaps
> 		   are technically feasible, though it's not clear yet
> 		   if there's any way to buy one)

Well, not quite identical.  It looks like for the standard configuration(s)
they've yanked out one of the two BI cages standard in most of the 6000 series
and put provision for mounting a couple of RA90 drives internally instead.

This makes for a pretty compact system if you only need a little (2 GB) disk,
but otherwise seems likely to sell a lot of VAXBI expansion cabinets.

DEC did also announce the 6400 series.  No great surprises - 7 VUPS/cpu
which puts it up with the high-end 8000 series processors.  Also, an
option to add 1 or 2 "vector processors" to the XMI cage "soon", Only
supported in a VMS/Fortran environment, of course.

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