24 Oct
1999
24 Oct
'99
2:35 p.m.
My main belief
is that nobody is going to keep a VAX anything running with
dozens of simultaneous users. So, if a VAX is to be something close
to "useful" today, it'll be in single-user mode. In that case, Integer
performance is very important.
Ah, to bad you don't know what you're talking about here. I know of a
certain major corporation that just got done putting a whole pile of new
VAX 7000's in a brand new computer room. Said corporation has numerous
computer rooms with VAXen, and these systems are heavily used. Hey, I'm
not saying the original IBM PC was going to outperform the VAX 6500;
but a modern PC will crush any VAX in any application, IMHO, with equivalent
h/w attached.
Speed isn't everything. I'd rather have a nice VAX than a modern PC,
you've also got to consider the fact that PC's aren't the most reliable of
platforms, and most run an OS that totally sucks!
My PCs are damn reliable; are you buying junk? They are -waaaaaaaaaaay- more
reliable than the VAX-11/780s, VAX-11/750s and VAX-11/785s that I have
used in the past. (I run BSDI unix on a Pentium Pro, as well as NetBSD on
other machines, and they have -never- crashed.)
Zane
-mac