[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[Steven Schweda]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:

> Did anyone here ever try to run DECWindows on a VAXStation 2000?  The
> Alpha Station 200 does it without even breathing hard.  Both machines
> might be properly described as the slowest machines in their respective
> architectures.

   Well, duh.  How much newer is the Alpha system?  1995 -
1989?  My VAXstation 2000 has 6MB of memory and MFM disks.
(Anyone with a 12MB card in the free-to-good-home price range
is welcome to contact me.)  My AlphaStation 200 4/233 has
768MB of memory and fast-wide SCSI disks.  It certainly
_ought_ to be faster, even if the CPU itself were not.

   I seem to recall that there were earlier, slower Alpha
systems, but that one is slow enough.  "without even breathing
hard"?  Try a Web browser.  Of course, if you think that plain
DECwindows is slow on a VAXsta 2000, try Motif (with too
little memory and slow disks).