Left: A MicroVAX 3600 with a disk drive on top. Right: A printer. The MicroVAX is a discontinued family of low-cost minicomputers developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). The first model, the MicroVAX I, was first shipped in 1984. [1]

2024年11月30日 · The odyssey of Microvax II is the story of ambitious computer engineers who enthusiastically bit off more than they could chew and ultimately proved they could digest it. The result was a machine that DEC President Ken Olsen has called “the most exciting, and in many ways, the most significant, product [DEC] has ever developed.”

The MicroVAX I. The first MicroVAX and the slowest VAX ever (around 0.25VUPS). This buid […]

2017年5月25日 · The MicroVAX II . The MicroVAX II is a minicomputer. Nearly as fast as the VAX 11/750, running at 0.9VUPS. Codenamed “Mayflower”, released in 1985, you could have one for $20,000 (see end of this post for a detailed list of options/costs). The MicroVAX II’s …

MicroVAX was intended to establish an industry standard for 32b processing by creating a single-chip VAX microprocessor. To reach this goal, much of the complexity of the VAX architecture -- h_floating, commercial instruction set, compatibility mode, console, standard peripherals -- was tossed overboard.

The MicroVAX was a family of low-end minicomputers developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). The first model, the MicroVAX I, was introduced in 1984. The MicroVAX family used processors that implemented the VAX instruction set architecture (ISA) and was succeeded by the VAX 4000.

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The following operating systems can run on the MicroVAX II: MicroVMS / VMS. In version 4 of the VMS operating system there were two different subversions: MicroVMS - for the series of MicroVAX computers; VMS - for all other VAX computers; Both versions differ in …

The MicroVAX II, a very successful product, shipped 65,000 units over 1985-1987; by comparison over 1985- 1987, there was roughly 14,000,000 IBM PCs and clone systems sold.

This paper describes the hardware and software necessary for a microvax 2 system for solution of system for solution of electromagentic field problems. The various advantages and disadvantages of the system is also outlined. The paper discusses not only the scientific aspects of computations but also the word processing capabilities.