Subject: Re: VAX VECTOR chip, what part number?
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/22/2001 11:11:22
Dave McGuire writes:
> Anyone know the vital statistics of that board? Specifically, I'd
>like to know the data formats it supports, the number and depth of the
>vector registers, and the performance in MFLOPS. I'd also like to
>know if it can do vector chaining and whether or not its operation is
>synchronous or asynchronous to the main VAX CPU.
Maybe someone knows but all I could find was that it's from a 6000-420
(double-processor) which was upgraded to a VAXvector 6000-420 (by adding
the vector processor board, as late as October 1990).
--mkb