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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- VAX-11/780
- VAX-11/782
- VAX-11/784
- VAX-11/785
- VAX-11/787
- VAX-11/750
- VAX-11/751
- VAX-11/730
- VAX-11/725
- VAX-11/790 and VAX-11/795
- Remaining machines
- References
thumb|A VAX-11/780
The VAX-11 is a discontinued family of 32-bit superminicomputers, running the Virtual Address eXtension (VAX) instruction set architecture (ISA), developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). Development began in 1976. In addition to being powerful machines in their own right, they also offer the additional ability to run user mode PDP-11 code (thus the -11 in VAX-11), offering an upward compatible path for existing customers.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “VAX-11” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.