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Date: Wed, 29-Feb-84 22:15:32 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 29 22:15:32 1984
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From:  Larry Seiler 

I guess I should have explained.  Last fall, DEC announced something
called the "MicroVAX I" which contains a two board implementation of an
11/780.  It uses a Q bus and has a small winnie and a dual floppy in
the same package.  It is not the same as the MicroVAX chip (which was
called the "MicroVAX 32" in the talk I went to, but I thought "MicroVAX
chip" would be more descriptive).  There is yet another VAX chip set (8 chips),
called V-11, that was also described at ISSCC.  So that's three different 
VLSI VAX implementations, one of which is an announced product ("MicroVAX I").
I thought that the single chip VAX microprocessor would be of most interest
to this bboard, so that was the only one I mentioned.  The reason I brought
it up is that there's been a lot of discussion of the 16000 and 68000 and
I wondered if people feel these architectures are better or worse than VAX
(or faster or slower), assuming that single chip 32 bit versions of all three 
were available.  I will summarize messages sent to me if there is sufficient 
interest.

	Larry
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