My high school got a VAX 11/730 to replace their PDP-8 in the mid 1980's which made it practical to teach programming classes based on PASCAL.
The VAX 11/780 was considered a big machine when it came out in 1977, which had a "32-bit" architecture very similar to the 68k and 386 machines. By the late 1980s, you could buy a 386 desktop computer that whupped the VAX.
_wire_•6mo ago
Uh... The 386 was designed on 11/780 and inherited lots of its protected-mode features from VAX architecture manuals that came with the many 780s installed at Intel design in SC and Hillsboro at that time, but other than this... yes the VAX was a "very similar" architecture to a 386. Thanks for noticing.
PaulHoule•6mo ago
The VAX 11/780 was considered a big machine when it came out in 1977, which had a "32-bit" architecture very similar to the 68k and 386 machines. By the late 1980s, you could buy a 386 desktop computer that whupped the VAX.
_wire_•6mo ago