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    MicroVAX I, was first shipped in 1984. They used processors that implemented the VAX instruction set architecture (ISA) and were succeeded by the VAX...
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    mid-1980s. The MicroVAX was superseded by the VAX 4000, the VAX 8000 was superseded by the VAX 6000 in the late 1980s and the mainframe-class VAX 9000 was introduced...
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  • OpenVMS (redirect from Vax/vms)
    RSX. A number of distributions of VAX/VMS were created: MicroVMS was a distribution of VAX/VMS designed for MicroVAX and VAXstation hardware, which had...
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    subset of the VAX instruction set architecture (ISA). The 78032 is used exclusively in DEC's VAX-based systems, starting with the MicroVAX II in 1985. When...
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    1988, having been supplanted by the MicroVAX family on the low end, and the VAX 8000 family on the high end. The VAX-11/780 is historically one of the most...
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  • 8800 VAX 8810/8820/8830/8840 VAX 8974 VAX 8978 MicroVAX I MicroVAX II Industrial VAX 630 MicroVAX III MicroVAX III+ VAX 4 MicroVAX 2000 MicroVAX 3100...
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  • using microprocessors implementing the VAX instruction set architecture (ISA). The VAX 4000 succeeded the MicroVAX family, and shipped with the OpenVMS...
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    operating systems. Many members of the VAXstation family had corresponding MicroVAX variants, which primarily differ by the lack of graphics hardware. The...
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  • Corporation's (DEC) discontinued native Unix operating systems for the PDP-11, VAX, MicroVAX and DECstations. The initial development of Unix occurred on DEC equipment...
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  • system on their diskless SUN workstations or MicroVAX workstations. Compiles could be done either on V, or on VAX Unix machines that provided file service...
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  • PDP-11 PDP-15 VAX Family Systems MicroVAX I, VAXStation I MicroVAX II, VAXStation II MicroVAX 3900 VAX 11/730 VAX 11/750 VAX 11/780 VAX 8600 GRI-909 2116...
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    as the LSI-11 Bus, is one of several bus technologies used with PDP and MicroVAX computer systems previously manufactured by the Digital Equipment Corporation...
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  • designed and implemented the data-path chip used in the MicroVAX in seven months. MicroVAX's data-path chip contains the entire 32-bit processor, except...
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  • the MicroVAX I, the first VAX microcomputer. Although it was a low-volume product compared with the New England-developed MicroVAX II, the MicroVAX I demonstrated...
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  • to implement an entire VAX system on a single chip. This led to 1985's MicroVAX 78032, which implemented a subset of the VAX, but it was clear it would...
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    used in the first multiprocessor workstation, the Firefly, built from MicroVAX 78032 microprocessors; the first multi-threaded Unix system, Taos; the...
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  • servers occupy much the same space as that previously occupied by a single MicroVAX server. Energy accounting Energy conservation measure Energy management...
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  • Microsoft Xenix (on IBM PC AT), DEC Ultrix (running on Microvax II, VAX-11/750, VAX-11/785, VAX 8600), Altos 2086, AT&T 3B2, AT&T 3B5, AT&T 3B20 and AT&T...
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  • greater-than signs form the distinctive prompt of the firmware console in MicroVAX, VAXstation, and DEC Alpha computers (known as the SRM console in the latter)...
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    established providers: the Apollo Computer Domain Series 3000, the DEC MicroVAX II, and Sun Microsystems Sun-3. In 1987, "The NSF starts to implement its...
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  • "Dual-Host MicroVAX Systems", VAXcluster Systems Quorum, February 1990, (EC-P0623-57), pp. 3–31. "VAX 4000 Systems Info Sheet", (EC-F1424-41). "VAX 6000 Systems...
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    PDP-11 (redirect from Micro PDP-11)
    newer 32-bit software, but this capability was dropped with the first MicroVAX. For a decade, the PDP–11 was the smallest system that could run Unix,...
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    shifting its strategy to LTO. DEC launched the TK50 tape drive for the MicroVAX II and PDP-11 minicomputers in 1984. This used 22-track CompacTape I cartridges...
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    become available in time. DEC engineers ported X6 to DEC's QVSS display on MicroVAX. In the second quarter of 1985, X acquired color support to function in...
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  • WinChip Sh-Boom 486, 5x86, 6x86 microNOVA mN601 and mN602 microECLIPSE VEGA Microprocessors DEC T-11 DEC J-11 DEC V-11 MicroVAX 78032 CVAX Rigel Mariah NVAX...
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    advertising to over two million subscribers. VAX and MicroVAX computers (very widespread in the 1980s) running VAX/VMS formed one of the most important proprietary...
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    microchip implementation of the MicroVAX CPU contains in its etchings the Russian phrase in the Cyrillic alphabet "VAX: When you care enough to steal the...
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    the fall of 1990, Torvalds enrolled in a Unix course. The course used a MicroVAX minicomputer running Ultrix, and one of the required texts was Operating...
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    Minicomputer and Superminicomputer K 1600 [de] (DEC PDP-11), K 1840 (VAX 11/780), K 1820 (MicroVAX II), Office and personal computers A 5120, PC 1715, A 7100 [de]...
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    studies, and was exposed to Unix for the first time in the form of a DEC MicroVAX running ULTRIX. His MSc thesis was titled Linux: A Portable Operating System...
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