Huw Davies [mailto:Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au]
> systems. All of these systems used either a PRO-350 or PRO-380 as the
> VAXconsole. Later (when all the PROs were used up?) the console was
> replaced with a uVAX-II and the systems renamed 88x0 (for
> x=1,2,3 or 4 CPUs).
Actually, the Nautilus family underwent
a slight redesign (or possibly a major redesign)
and became the Polarstar family. This was the
VAX 8810 (1 cpu) through to the VAX 8840 (4 cpu).
Up to 2 CPUs per cab, max 2 cabs for a full
system. The system bus was renamed from
NMI to PMI (and presumably underwent some changes).
The PRO console was replaced with a MicroVAX II.
There was some confusion about the 8700 and 8800
machines and so they were (IIRC) renamed
VAX 8810-N and VAX 8800-N. I never saw one
of these so I don't know whether they were
real VAX 8700 and VAX 8800 or whether they were
a VAX 8810/VAX 8820 but with a PRO console (
or even a MicroVAX II console!).
The maintenance manual for the Nautilus
series was online at
http://208.190.133.201/decimages/moremanuals.htm
but that seems to have slipped two months
backwards in a time warp and all that
has vanished! I've never seen a similar
manual for the Polarstar series, but I
have seen the corresponding lists of modules
and they did look quite different to Nautilus
IIRC.
Antonio
Received on Thu Sep 20 2001 - 05:10:56 BST