What year did the 78032 VAX come out?

Peace...  Sridhar

On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:

> 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
>