On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 02:16:29PM -0700, Chuck McManis wrote:
> Send me a 700 and I'll tell you :-)
> Actually there is quite a bit of difference between the 300 and the 700. It 
> is the 400/500/600/700 that share the same architecture. See this article 
> <http://www.digital.com/info/DTJ705/DTJ705SC.TXT> for a description of how 
> DEC changed the 300 to get 4 times the performance out of what was their 
> fastest VAX.
> The "technical manual" for the KA690 (VAX 4000/700) is really just a couple 
> of addendum/changes to the KA680 manual. For what it is worth I would 
> really like to get one of these CPUs to "round out" my VAX herd, except for 
> the MicroVAX I and rtVAX (KA610, KA620) I've got representatives of all the 
> Q-bus vaxen.
> --Chuck

I would kill for a 4000-700A; my first experience with non-PC computers
was via VMS 5.5-2 on a 4000-700A in '93.  I setup the first ever web
server for usao.edu on that same box in the summer of '95. 8-)

For now, finally got some RAM cards, now I need a SCSI controller
for a VAX 6000-410.

Bill

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