Yes. The MicroVAX I and II were IC implementations of the original VAX. Vax on a chip. (Two different implementations. Low and high end.) They were designe

Yes. The MicroVAX I and II were IC implementations of the original VAX. Vax on a chip. (Two different implementations. Low and high end.) They were designed and manufactured in-house by DEC, and were for sale in VAX minicomputer products by late 1984, early 1985 in volume. In 1984, the only full 32-bit microprocessor that was actually available for a workstation or personal computer was the Motorola 68020. The Intel 386 wouldn't be out until late 1985. > They were so worried about cannibalizing their own business that they forgot that they could get eaten by their new competitors instead. There is perhaps an alternate history, where DEC started making 32-bit workstations and high-end personal computers around then as a major push, and not in the late 1980s as an afterthought. Though by 1984, IBM was starting to feel the pressure from competition in the low-end PC market. DEC would have felt that pressure! They were selling PC compatibles already. Margins were razor-thin, sales were impersonal. Exact opposite of how DEC usually operated. No surprise management saw it as a risky sector to further expand in.