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i would call a vax a "super mini". one of the crop of 32 bit multi-user systems that came out in the 80's. a pdp-11 was a mini, it was multi-user, but the mac

i would call a vax a "super mini". one of the crop of 32 bit multi-user systems that came out in the 80's. a pdp-11 was a mini, it was multi-user, but the machine was weak. a 'super mini', with 16MB of memory, now that was a machine you could do great things with.

kjs3 6y ago
The VAX succeeded the PDP, though the PDP was kept in production for many years of overlap. They're different generation of technology filling the same niche. The PDP-11/70 was the beast of it's day, and even came in a multi-processor version (the 11/74). Saying the PDP was a mini and the VAX was a supermini is like saying the 286 was a mini but the 386 was a supermini.