Minis and mainframes: VAX family grows at a dizzying pace minicomputer makers merge to survive minisupers emulate VAXes and crays connection machine is an AI supercomputer

After 1985´s heady flirtation with hypercubes and other exotic architectures, the minicomputer industry returned to its roots last year. There was a resurgence of the traditional minicomputer: a rackmounted system with a single processor built around dozens of chips.