Template talk:Nav VAX

Condense duplicates

A lot of the MicroVAXen seem to come in MicroVAX, VAXserver, and VAXstation variants; a complete table that lists them all would be huge. I think we should try and condense it as much as possible. E.g. instead of listing VAX 4000 series, VAXserver 4000 series and VAXstation 4000 series, we should just have one 'VAX 4000 series' entry, accepting the fact that to get to the 'VAXserver 4000 series' or 'VAXstation 4000 series' will take an extra click. Jnc (talk) 21:50, 22 March 2023 (CET)

Good idea - I agree. There are so many commonalities between the variants of a "VAX family" which would have to be repeated if treated in different places. In some special cases where there are no other variants (e.g. VAXstation 3520/3540 and VAXstation 3820/3840 (not yet included), which have neither VAXserver nor MicroVAX variants), one could mention that in the respective page. Vaxorcist (talk) 22:20, 22 March 2023 (CET)

Yes; I have mentioned the VAX 4000/VAXserver 4000/VAXstation 4000 links in each of those pages, to group them all together, and will do the same to any similar groups I find. (Although the VAXstation 4000s are quite different from the VAX 4000/VAXserver 4000; the latter have a QBUS backplane, whereas the VAXstation 4000s all seem to use motherboards. I'll have to make a note of that.)

I made sure to leave the VAXstation 3200/3500, VAXstation 3520/3540 and VAXstation 8000 entries here because as far as I can see, they are unique units. (Although there is a MicroVAX 3500, we don't have a MicroVAX 3200 page - and although some Web pages mention it, it doesn't seem to exist in any DEC documents.) There is a MicroVAX 2000, but I don't know if it has any relationship to the VAXstation 2000, so I have left the latter here for now. Jnc (talk) 23:23, 22 March 2023 (CET)

Per the VAXstation 2000 and MicroVAX 2000 Technical Manual, the MicroVAX 2000 and VAXstation 2000 seem to be basically the same machine, with a dumb terminal (VT220) on the former, and a display on the latter. So I will remove the VAXstation 2000 link here, after making sure the MicroVAX 2000 and VAXstation 2000 pages reference each other.

Then, on to the MicroVAX 3100 and VAXstation 3100; I need to upgrade the former's page first! Given that there is a MicroVAX 3100 and VAXserver 3100 Owner's Manual, it looks like they may be the same kind of thing. Jnc (talk) 13:52, 23 March 2023 (CET)