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VAX 8600 systems
| VAX 8600 | |
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Announcement date: | 31 October 1984 |
| FRS date: | March 1985 |
| Codename: | Venus |
| OS support (VMS): | V4.0 |
| CPU Details | |
| CPU module: | KA86 |
| Number of processors: | 1 |
| VMS DCL CPU: | 4 |
| VMS DCL XCPU: | 0 |
| SID: | 0408F3FE |
| XSID: | 00000000 |
| CPU technology: | ECL Gate Array |
| CPU cycle time: | 80ns |
| CPU clock: | 50MHz |
| Instruction-buffer: | 8 bytes [1] |
| Translation-buffer: | 512 entries [1] |
| Gate delay: | 1ns |
| Writable Control Store: | 8K 86-bit words [1] |
| Cache: | 16KB [1] |
| Compatibility mode: | Yes |
| Console processor: | T-11 [1] |
| Console device: | RL02 [1] |
| Memory | |
| Minimum memory: | 4MB |
| Maximum memory: | 368MB |
| Memory checking: | 7-bit ECC/longword [1] |
| I/O | |
| Max I/O throughput: | 20MB/s |
| MASSBUS: | 4 @ 2.0MB/s |
| UNIBUS: | 7 @ 1.5MB/s |
| LAN support: | optional |
| Performance | |
| VUPs: | 83.3MHz |
References
[1] VAX Hardware Handbook Volume 1 - 1986.
