The silly season is coming to a close, Labor Day is fast approaching and with it the hectic season of new product launches in the US. One of the first out of the slips promises to be DEC with the first three products to be built around the forthcoming C-VAX MicroVAX III CMOS microprocessor chip […]
The silly season is coming to a close, Labor Day is fast approaching and with it the hectic season of new product launches in the US. One of the first out of the slips promises to be DEC with the first three products to be built around the forthcoming C-VAX MicroVAX III CMOS microprocessor chip set, which is rated at some 2 MIPS. The launch is set for the DECworld show on September 9, and as well as the Q-bus MicroVAX III itself, and the VAXstation III variant, Electronic News looks for a BI bus VAX 8400 built around the new processor; the 8400 is expected to include microcode and other enhancements to lift performance to 3 MIPS (CI No 703) and to sell for just less than a similarly configured IBM 9377 Model 90 of the same performance, with a base price of around $180,000. DEC is also expected to come up with microcode changes for the VAX 8700 and its 8800 dual processor variant, increasing their performance from the present 6 MIPS and 12 MIPS to 7.5 MIPS and 15 MIPS respectively.
