VAX 8700
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VAX 8700 systems
| VAX 8700 | |
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Announcement date: | August 1986 |
| Codename: | Nautilus |
| OS support (VMS): | VMS V4.4 |
| CPU Details | |
| CPU module: | KA88 |
| Number of processors: | 1 |
| CPU technology: | ECL Gate Array [1] |
| CPU cycle time: | 45ns |
| Instruction-buffer: | 16 bytes |
| Translation-buffer: | 1024 entries |
| Writable Control Store: | 15K 143-bit words |
| User Writable Control Store: | 1K 143-bit words |
| Cache: | 143MHz |
| Console processor: | PRO380 |
| Memory | |
| Minimum memory: | 32MB |
| Maximum memory: | 512MB |
| Memory checking: | 7-bit ECC/longword |
| I/O | |
| Max I/O throughput: | Over 30MB/s [1] |
| UNIBUS: | 2 @ 1.5MB/s |
| VAXBI: | 4 @ 13.3MB/s |
| LAN support: | optional |
| Performance | |
| VUPs: | 6 |
The VAX 8700 is a single-CPU version of the VAX 8800.
When the second generation of VAX 88xx computers came out in 1987, it was renamed to VAX 8810N (N for Nautilus)
References
[1] "VAX 8800 Family", Digital Technical Journal, Vol 1 No 4, February 1987.
[2] "VAX 6000 Model 400 System", Digital Technical Journal, Vol 2 No 2, Spring 1990.
[3] VAX Systems Hardware Handbook -- VAXBI Systems. EB-31692-46
[4] Systems & Options Catalog. European Edition. Spring 1990.
External links
- VAX Hardware Handbook Volume 2 - the VAX 8700 is covered in Chapter 2 (pp. 24-49 of the PDF)
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