24 Oct
1999
24 Oct
'99
4:06 p.m.
On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Bill Pechter wrote:
Unibus runs to 7mb/sec...slow, yes, but not bad for the time it was designed
and [very widely] used, IMO. I rather like Unibus.
-Dave McGuire
<I
certainly know for a fact that UNIBUS performed very poorly. I don't hav
<data at my fingertips, but it seems to me it was around 10 Mb/s (that
<megabits/sec) peak throughput. [I prefer measuring throughputs in bits/se
<since that normalizes across different bus widths.]
Allison
I seem to remember real world Unibus was mentioned to be up to
1-1.2 Megabytes/second so your number may be right. I often wondered
if it really got that high in real life...