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: | 64kb |
| 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, the VAX 8700 was renamed to VAX 8810N (N for Nautilus)
See also
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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