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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <00892730$0$17039$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
	JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 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 ?

Mentec M11 was apparently released in 1997.  Somehow I doubt there was
still VAX development going on then.

bill

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