On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 20:38, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> > --- Guy Sotomayor <ggs_at_shiresoft.com> wrote:
> > > * extra 2MW memeory board
> > > * Monitor & keyboard
> > > * VAX Vector 6000-520 (big)
> > Somebody looked for a vax vector desperately years
> > ago.
>
> What is a "VAX Vector"? Is it a VAX with something like the old Floating
> Point Systems vector processor attached (I've got a VAXstation II/GPX that
> was hooked to such a beast).
It's a VAX where attached to each processor card is another that is a
vector floating point unit. Not too dissimilar from what you see today
ala MMX, 3D-Now, Altivec, etc.
>
> Zane
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TTFN - Guy
Received on Thu May 20 2004 - 01:31:12 BST