microprocessors in my vax 3800

[Paul Thompson]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, 9000 VAX wrote:

> Today I pulled out the boards in my vax 3800 and I found 7 microprocessors
> besides the CVAX. They are,
> 2x 68000, 8096, 80186, 2x 8086, Z80.
>
> Just a little discovery to share with you.
>

I had noticed similar with XMI and BI boards, where one might see 
combination of a couple of processors including a VAX chip along with an 
AMD x86 clone or a 68k or Zilog processor.

I remember reading a description of the 'nexus' concept in some DEC unix 
sources which seemed to indicate a prediliction for 'smart' boards.