2 Jan
2022
2 Jan
'22
5:20 p.m.
I've always felt that in terms of performance the proper measure would
have been VUPS/kW :-)
That way my little MicroVAX 2 would be able to hold its head high!
Nigel Johnson, MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU
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On 2022-01-02 20:18, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
On Jan 2,
2022, at 5:11 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
?On 1/2/22 5:20 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
VAX-11/780 = 1 VUP
VAX-11/782 = 1.8 VUP
MicroVAX 1 = 0.3 VUP
MicroVAX 2 = 0.7 VUP
Zane
I keep thinking about it, but no. The 780 was
neat from a historical perspective, and the 785 at UMBC (UMBC5) ran Ultrix (and was on the
ARPANET, not the crappy Bitnet the 8600's were on)
Is that Bitnet as in the
Because it was there network that many IBM mainframes were on?
but the 780 was really slow. I have a Microvax II
here that would equal it CPU speed-wise, and the running of the main memory on the SBI was
cool for the 782 option but was pretty slow.
Can I ask for a rough translation in
to comparative VAX Units of Performance (VUPs)? I /think/ that the VAX 11/780 was 1 VUP.