VAXstation

A VAXstation is a VAX-based workstation manufactured by DEC. The very first product with this name, the VAXstation 100, was not VAX-based; it was a programmable graphics terminal which attached to the UNIBUS on a host computer.

Another one, the VAXstation 500 employed the Tektronix 4125 Graphics Terminal attached to a MicroVAX I. When the MicroVAX II came out the same combination was called VAXstation 520.

The rest were all independent computers, based on a variety of internal bus types, starting with the QBUS. They were often produced by adding a bit-mapped display to an existing machine to produce a single-user workstation; later ones used a single motherboard, with the display support built in. Ethernet was increasingly used to tie them together.

QBUS-based VAXstations

• VAXstation I
• VAXstation II
• VAXstation 500 series
• VAXstation 3200/3500

Motherboard-based VAXstations

• VAXstation 2000
• VAXstation 3100 series
• VAXstation 4000 series

Others

• VAXstation 3520/3540 - M-bus
• VAXstation 8000 - VAXBI bus

See also

• VAXstation Peripherals
• Netbooting a VAXstation

External links

• Digital's VAXstation Family of Workstations