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...antennas, each more than 1,095 meters (3,600 ft.) long, in Moscow, Me. Some 175 km (110 miles) away, in Columbia Falls, are three receiving antennas, each stretching nearly 1,520 meters (5,000 ft.). The whole system is controlled by 28 of Digital Equipment Corp.'s powerful VAX computers located at the operations center in Bangor...
...Smithsonian owns virtually all CFA observational and computational facilities, including the Oak Ridge Observatory at Harvard, Mass., the George R. Agassiz Station in Fort Davis, Tex., the 176-inch equivalent Multiple Mirror (MMT) telescope at the Whipple Oberservatory in Amado, Ariz., and the VAX II Cluster mainframe computers at the CFA, which can perform two million calculations per second...
...miniaturization allowed computer designers to etch more circuits into silicon chips. The most advanced microprocessors began to resemble state-of-the-art calculators that could compute everything from square roots to compound interest at the touch of a button. By the time Digital Equipment introduced its best-selling VAX 11/780 computer in 1977, the machine's instruction set had swelled to 304 commands...
...market for midsize data- processing computers, the $15,000-to-$200,000 machines used by Big Business and Government. While IBM is still the biggest in the $18 billion market, with a 17% share, Massachusetts-based Digital Equipment (fiscal 1987 revenues: $9.4 billion) has moved up swiftly with its VAX model by selling machines twice as fast as IBM's at about half the cost. Hoping to retaliate, IBM developed a minimainframe computer, the file cabinet-size 9370, which was dubbed the "VAX killer," a rare signal of Big Blue's anxiety about a smaller competitor...
...computers, priced from $75,000 to $180,000, are extensions of its successful VAX line and represent the company's most aggressive assault yet on IBM. Traditionally, DEC has focused on the scientific and engineering markets, but the firm is now targeting such IBM strongholds as financial services, government and aerospace. For its part, IBM recently introduced a line of computers dubbed "VAX-killers." But industry analysts believe DEC's latest machines, which are twice as fast as IBM's, may be invulnerable to Big Blue's best shots...