The m88k-based AViiON servers were the successors to the once popular DG NOVA servers. They consisted of a whole series of computers based on Motorola m88k-CPUs ranging from small desktop-sized workstations to rather big and bulky SMP servers. The only OS that runs on these systems is, at least to my knowledge, Data General's own Unix implementation, called DG-UX.
The table below tries to summarize the different AViiON systems; since information on these old boxen is generally very hard to come by, some of the entries may be incomplete and/or incorrect.
| Model | Case | CPU | Clock | Cache per CPU |
RAM max. |
Internal I/O1 | External I/O1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AV200 | desktop | 88100 | 16MHz | 32KB | 16MB | SE | 10mb, SE, 2 ser, k/m |
| AV300 | pizzabox | 88100 | 16MHz | 32KB | |||
| AV310 | pizzabox | 88100 | 20MHz | 32KB | |||
| AV400 | deskside | 88100 | 20MHz | 32KB | 128MB | SE, 2 VME | 10mb, SE, 2 ser, 1 par, k/m, RGB |
| AV410 | deskside | 2 88100 | 20MHz | 32KB | 128MB | SE, 2 VME | 10mb, SE, 2 ser, 1 par, k/m, RGB |
| AV500 | deskside | 88110 | 40MHz | 128MB | SE | 10mb, SE, 2 ser, k/m | |
| AV530 | deskside | 2 88100 | 25MHz | SE, 2 VME | 10mb, SE, 2 ser, 1 par, k/m, RGB | ||
| AV550 | wide tower | 88110 | 40MHz | ||||
| AV3200 | 88100 | ||||||
| AV4100 | deskside | 88100 | 20MHz | 128MB | SE, 2 VME | 10mb, SE, 2 ser, 1 par, k/m, RGB | |
| AV4300 | deskside | 88100 | 25MHz | 128MB | SE, 2 VME | 10mb, SE, 2 ser, 1 par | |
| AV4320 | deskside | 2 88100 | 25MHz | 128MB | SE, 2 VME | 10mb, SE, 2 ser, 1 par | |
| AV4500 | tower | 88110 | 40MHz | 256KB | 256MB | ||
| AV4600 | deskside | 88100 | 33MHz | 128MB | 2 VME | 10mb | |
| AV4605 | deskside | 88100 | 33MHz | 128MB | 2 VME | 10mb | |
| AV4625 | deskside | 1-2 88100 | 33MHz | 128MB | 2 VME | 2 10mb | |
| AV5100 | 88100 | 20MHz | |||||
| AV5240 | 1-4 88100 | ||||||
| AV5500 | wide tower | 1-2 88110 | 40MHz | 256KB | 256MB | SE, opt. FW, 2 VME | 10mb, 4 ser, SE, par |
| AV6100 | 1-2 88100 | 20MHz | |||||
| AV6240 | rack | 1-4 88100 | |||||
| AV6280 | rack | 1-8 88100 | |||||
| AV8000-8 | 1-8 88100 | ||||||
| AV8500 | wide tower | 2-4 88100 | 50MHz | 256KB | 2GB | SE, opt. FW, 5 VME | 10mb, 3 ser, SE, par |
| AV8500+ | wide tower | 2-8 88110 | 50MHz | 256KB | 2GB | SE, opt. FW, 5 VME | 10mb, 3 ser, SE, par |
| AV9500 | rack | 2-16 88100 | 50MHz | 256KB | 2GB | SE, opt. FW, 5 VME | 10mb, 3 ser, SE, par |
| AV9500+ | rack | 2-18 88110 | 50MHz | 256KB | 2GB | SE, opt. FW, 5 VME | 10mb, 3 ser, SE, par |
