VAX 8500/VAX 8530
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VAX 8500 systems
| VAX 8500 | |
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Announcement date: | 7 April 1986 |
| FRS date: | May 1986 |
| Codename: | Flounder |
| OS support (VMS): | VMS V4.4 |
| CPU Details | |
| Number of processors: | 1 |
| CPU technology: | ECL Gate Array [1] |
| CPU cycle time: | 45ns |
| Instruction-buffer: | 16 bytes [1] |
| Translation-buffer: | 1024 entries [1] |
| Writable Control Store: | 15K 143-bit words [1] |
| User Writable Control Store: | 1K 143-bit words [1] |
| Cache: | 64KB [1] |
| Compatibility mode: | No |
| Console processor: | PRO 380 |
| Console device: | 45 |
| Memory | |
| Minimum memory: | 16MB |
| Maximum memory: | 320MB |
| Memory checking: | 7-bit ECC/longword |
| I/O | |
| Max I/O throughput: | 16MB/s [1] |
| UNIBUS: | 1 @ 1.5MB/s |
| VAXBI: | 1-2 @ 13.3MB/s [3] |
| LAN support: | standard [3] |
| Performance | |
| VUPs: | 3.0 |
References
[1] "VAX 8800 Family", Digital Technical Journal, Vol 1 No 4, February 1987.
[2] Customer Update. Volume 5 Issue 8B. 15th August 1994.
[3] VAX Hardware Handbook. Volume 2-1986.
[4] VAX Systems Hardware Handbook -- VAXBI Systems. EB-31692-46
