24 Feb
2003
24 Feb
'03
2:02 p.m.
You're
making me wish I could give this a try under VMS. I wonder where on
earth I've got my pair of RD54's stashed. I know where everything else is
that would be required to temporarily switch a PDP-11 over to a MicroVAX II.
It would make for some interesting testing, and I've been wanting to us a
MicroVAX II to practice my system tuning skills (improvements are more
noticable on a MVII).
I'd be quite interested to know what you find. I'm not willing to
discount inefficient drivers on the NetBSD side, but just the published
transfer rates for the MFM disks, let alone seek times, suggest that on
a decently configured network, local storage will be slower than NFS.