Looking for VAX FAQs

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Wed Jul 8 17:29:47 1998

< > It may be repairable, but it's still dirt slow. We used to use ours to
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< I thought this was classiccmp, and not high-speed-VAX-list :-).

It was slow! However people liked them as a machine could be fitted to one
40" rack maybe two and run forever in a closet. That and the VAX
archetectures ability to stand heavy loads and slow down gracefully made
them good workhorse machines for many tasks.

it upside was it used unibus perpherals, compact, ran under 10a_at_120V and was
generally a 24x7x365 machine. For a lot of people they are nice as they
get you a "real iron" vax and still fit it in a room.

Allison
Received on Wed Jul 08 1998 - 17:29:47 BST