According to "Digital Technical Journal" Number 2 they started in
the uVAX II system started customer field tests in "early spring 1985"

Piece of what?

Clint



On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Vance Dereksen wrote:

> 
> What year did the 78032 VAX come out?
> 
> Peace...  Sridhar
> 
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:
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> > On June 25, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > > >   Intel hasn't produced a decent design since the 8085, but the people
> > > 
> > > You call the 8085 "decent"?!?!?!?  It wasn't even close to decent!!!
> > > They've all been hacks ever since the 4004!
> > 
> >   Ahh, good flame bait. ;)  I'll just say this: I like the 8085.
> > 
> > > I think *every* other microprocessor design ever done (except maybe the
> > > silly little 6502 that I so dearly loved) was better than anything Intel
> > 
> >   Good lord, the 6502?  I actually like to have some REGISTERS in my
> > processors, thank you. ;)
> > 
> > > ever came up with.  Of course I liked the RCA1802 once I figured it out,
> > > so what do I know!  ;-)
> > 
> >   Yes, the 1802 is very interesting, isn't it?
> > 
> > > Now if Western Electric were still building real CPUs they might even
> > > have given the Alpha a run for its money....  Before WE32000's made it
> > > onto a single die though the National Semi CPUs were the most awsome!
> > 
> >   Yes, but those were some WEIRD designs.
> > 
> > > Of course they all paid homage back to the VAX....
> > 
> >   ...which is newer than most of the processors that we discussed
> > above, strangely enough.
> > 
> >         -Dave McGuire
> > 
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