Re: "A Historical Look at the VAX"


"Richard Tomkins" <tomkinsr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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One of the biggest issues with VAX chip performance was that the chips
were
derived from an architecture design which was originally based on discrete
electronics. VAX was a DEC Standard and this definition originally came
about using ECL semiconductors.

I seem to remember ECL being used in the VAX-9000 but was it used in other
machines as well?

Neil Rieck
Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/links/cool_openvms.html


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