At 12:49 PM 28-05-00 -0700, sjm wrote:
 "The" original VAX.  The original model of
the VAX announced in
1977 was called the VAX-11/780, followed by various configurations
(11/782=Dual CPU version; 11/784=Quad CPU version).  There was also
a much smaller, slower, cheaper version later called the VAX-11/750. 
Well that's the first time I've heard of an 11/784. More details would be
interesting. I'm assuming that the MA780 had four ports rather than the two
I'd assumed it had...
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