9 Dec
2005
9 Dec
'05
6:24 p.m.
The VS2k is a bare bones uVAX-II cpu and inst very
fast but I never
thought the boot to be unusually slow unless the dianogstic
were running.
RD5x drives are painfully slow, and this is especially a problem in the
VS2000 because the integrated disk controller a) lacks DMA, and b) lacks the
T11 chip to do local processing found in a RQDXn - the uVAX CPU has to do
all the work.
Starting DECwindows, especially, took forever...
[Also, maybe I can cook dinner faster than you :-)]
Bob