Subject: Re: DECstation memory question
To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@isds.Duke.EDU>
From: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 06/01/1995 08:50:21
Ooh! DECstation trivia! Okay, here goes, in order of release:
PMAX DECstation 3100
PMIN DECstation 2100
3MAX DECstation 5000/200
3MIN DECstation 5000/1xx
MAXine DECstation 5000/xx
3MAX+ DECstation 5000/240
Note that the PMIN and 3MAX came out pretty close to each other, as
did the 3MAX+ and MAXine, so I may have gotten the order wrong. I
don't know the code name for the DECstation 5000/260, which was
produced after the original Workstation Systems Engineering group was
laid off.
Also, machines called DECsystem <whatever> were released. The
difference between a DECsystem and a DECstation is that the DECstation
had a frame buffer console, whereas a DECsystem had a serial console.
As many of you are aware, a DECstation can be converted into a
DECsystem pretty easily, except for the name on the front panel.
_MelloN_