8 Nov
2001
8 Nov
'01
12:25 a.m.
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Allison wrote:
From: M H Stein <mhstein(a)usa.net>
That, and there were much faster machines than VAXen back then.
Peace... Sridhar
And that in 1987 an XXU equipped system was almost
twice as fast as a
VAX 11/780, which cost over four times as much as the largest Cromemco
system at the time.
Sounds impressive...save for in 1987 the VAX11/780 was 9 years old and
out of widespread use!! By 1987 the microVAX had been around for a while,
the midrange VAX was 4x-8x faster than the 780 and easily 1/3 the size! Cromemco was pretty neat but first, fastest not
hardly.
Allison