[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[JF Mezei]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:

>> Effectively VAX ended with the introduction of Alpha, 1992.
> 
> Which brings up an interesting point I may need to do some research
> on.  I wonder when Mentec released the last upgraded PDP-11 hardware?
> Why do I have a feeling that even the PDP-11 outlasted the VAX.

A good article about the last generation of VAX chips/systems:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/dtj/vol4num3/toc.htm

(Digital Technical journal, many articles on the varoius NVAX based
systems. This issue dates from "summer 1992".

I was under the impression that the 4000-500/600 were younger and had
gotten a speed bump, but that article speaks of all of the VAX 4000s in
the present tense, so I have to assume the 4000-600 existed as of Summer
1992.

Note that sales and manufacture continued well after that.


QUESTION: Were there any new models of VAX (either workstation or
server) which were announced after 1992 ? Were they NVAX based, and did
the chips get a speed bump or just the same chips with same clock speeds
as the 1992 batch ?

When was the last batch of VAX CPU chips FABbed ?