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 …

The VAX-11/780 was the first member to ship of the VAX family of larger computers. The VAX series was conceived as the successor to the successful PDP-11 series of minicomputers ; in …

The VAX-11/780, introduced October 25, 1977, was the first of a range of popular and influential computers implementing the VAX ISA. The VAX family was a huge success for DEC, with the …

With VAX, DEC extended its PDP-11 minicomputer architecture from 16 to 32 bits. The first model in the VAX “superminicomputer” line was the VAX-11/780. The line rivaled “much more …

The VAX line of 32-bit “super-minicomputers” rivaled much more expensive mainframe computers. Its success made DEC the second-largest company in the industry. VAX, a …

characterize VAX-11/780 processor performance under real timesharing workloads [13]. Our main goal is to attribute the time spent in instruction execution to the various activities a VAX …

In particular, while the VAX-111780, which was introduced in 1978, was probably the preeminent timesharing machine on university campuses at that time, very little was known about how it …

The VAX-11 Series computers are 32-bit systems based on the PDP-11 family of 16-bit minicomputers. VAX provides 32-bit addressing for a 4-gigabyte program address space, and …

VAX-11/780 Installation Manual Prepared by Educational Services of Digital Equipment Corporation

Extremely popular in universities as well as government and industrial research settings, the DEC VAX minicomputer was a powerful timesharing system that encouraged the growth of …