Tony Duell wrote:
The
"bad" news is that a VAX-11/780 has a 500KHz clock (I had to
check I didn't write 500MHz there :-)
Are you dure? While I can well believe it averages 500,000 VAX
insturctions per second, the machine was very heavily microcoded, and I
refuse to believe the microcycle clock is anything like as slow as that.
I thought it was always considered a 1 MIPS machine.
During its time, it was the base for most of the benchmark
programs. (MIPS, MUPS, and all that)