VAX 9000 is a discontinued family of Minicomputers developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation using custom ECL-based processors implementing the VAX instruction set architecture.
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10 Facts About VAX 9000
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VAX 9000 invested an estimated $1 billion in the development of the 9000, in spite of considerable in-company concern about the concept in the era of rapidly improving RISC performance.
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VAX 9000 was a more complex system, beyond the capabilities of LSI of 1970s in a single-chip format.
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The VAX 9000 managed not only to lose billions of dollars, but led to the ending of several much more promising designs.
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VAX 9000 was a multiprocessor and supported one, two, three or four CPUs clocked at 62.
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VAX 9000's CPU was coupled with a vector processor with a maximum theoretical performance of 125 MFLOPS.
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The SID-generated portion of the VAX 9000 was completed 2 years ahead of schedule, whereas other areas of the VAX 9000 development encountered implementation problems, resulting in a much delayed product release.
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VAX 9000 Model 110 was an entry-level model with the same performance as the Model 210 but had a smaller memory capacity and was bundled with less software and services.
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VAX 9000 Model 210 was an entry-level model with one CPU that could be upgraded.
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VAX 9000 Model 4x0 was a multiprocessor capable model, the value of "x" denoting the number of CPUs present.
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