der Mouse wrote:
> 
> > [The 11/730] was the slowest VAX ever shipped, with the only possible
> > exception being the MicroVAX-I.
> 
> The 725 was faster?  I always thought the 725 was a stripped-down (and
> slower) version of the 730.  (I remember decommissioning a 730, or
> maybe a 725, I forget...we were trying to find the CPU and eventually
> decided, only half in jest, that t'was a Z-80 running a VAX emulator.)
> 
>                                         der Mouse
> 

Don't knock the Z-80 :-)  I used to run an M/PM machine that had a 6 Mhz
Z-80 and it took the newly released IBM/AT seriously to task. :-)

Andy