Recapping on what’s expected from DEC next Tuesday – when IBM is also expected to come out with enhanced 3090s – the so-called VAX 9000 is tipped to appear in two versions – a single processor Model 210 and a field-upgradable 400 family with one to four processors, appearing as the 410, 420, 430 and 440, using the 30 MIPS, 16nS Aridus processor: the optional answer to IBM’s Vector Facility is expected to take performance to 18MFLOPS per processor; according to Electronic news, DEC will also likely announce an agreement with Computer Associates International Inc under which a version of the latter’s IBM data centre management software will be made available for the new VAX 9000s.
