it's by convention used as a substitute for the greek letter 'mi' which 
is by convention used as a macro for the word 'micro' in most scientific 
and engineering jargon, and thus 'uVAX' is the common abbreviation for
'microVAX' which is what DEC called a very successful series of VAXen, of 
which yours is a specimen. and very micro it is! even my 11/750's and 6000
arent really truly _big_ VAXen, and those are larger than washing machines:
the picture ragge posted a link to, thats a big 8000 series, those are 
_big_ VAXen :-)

happy hacking,
isildur

On Thu, 24 May 2001, linc wrote:

> On Thu, 24 May 2001, emanuel stiebler wrote:
> 
> > Dave McGuire wrote:
> > > 
> > >   Hehe...hey guys, Linc thinks a uVax-II is big. 8)
> > > 
> > >   We'll straighten him out. ;)
> > > 
> > 
> > That's an easy one. He should just think, what the "u" in uVAX stands
> > for ;-)
> > 
> > cheers
> > 
> 
> OK, I give - what?
> -Linc.
> 
>  In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded... Yeah Right. 
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