MicroVAX

Left: A MicroVAX 3600 with a disk drive on top. Right: A printer

The MicroVAX is a discontinued family of low-cost minicomputers developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). The first model, the MicroVAX I, was first shipped in 1984.[1] They used processors that implemented the VAX instruction set architecture (ISA) and were succeeded by the VAX 4000. Many members of the MicroVAX family had corresponding VAXstation variants, which primarily differ by the addition of graphics hardware.[2] The MicroVAX family supports Digital's VMS, ULTRIX and VAXELN operating systems. Prior to VMS V5.0, MicroVAX hardware required a dedicated version of VMS named MicroVMS.[3][4]

  1. ^ Rick Spitz; Peter George; Stephen Zalewski (1986). "The Making of a Micro VAX Workstation" (PDF). Digital Technical Journal. 1 (2). Retrieved October 21, 2021.
  2. ^ "Hardware Documentation - Machines DEC - VAX hardware reference". www.netbsd.org. Retrieved 2021-01-21.
  3. ^ Kathleen D. Morse. "The VMS/MicroVMS merge". DEC Professional Magazine. pp. 74–84.
  4. ^ "Micro VMS operating system". Computerworld. June 18, 1984. p. 7. The Micro VMS operating system announced last week by Digital Equipment Corp. for its Microvax I family of microcomputers is a prepackaged version of ...