[Info-vax] MicroVAX/VMS newbie, couple of questions

[Wilm Boerhout]

Jordi Guillaumes i Pons vaguely mentioned on 29-9-2009 20:59:
> En/na Bob Eager ha escrit:
> 
>>
>> Absolutely. I just ran a performance test on my single core Pentium 4 
>> at 3.2GHz, and got about 12 VUPs. Doubt if another core would make a 
>> significant difference, so the Macbook seems perhaps a little high.
> 
> And don't forget we are talking about SIMH, which is an straight 
> emulator. I think Charon-VAX does some JIT and code translation stuff, 
> so for business purposes perhaps it would be a better idea than SIMH.

Indeed, on modern hardware, CHARON-VAX will go up to 60 VUPS per core, 
with VAX SMP possibilities on multicore machines. IO speed also better, 
especially when the VAX is connected to a SAN. Gigabit Ethernet as well.

/Wilm