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.