[Info-vax] web browsers for VMS on ALPHA

[John Wallace]

On Feb 21, 9:00 pm, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <ijuikh$lo... at online.de>, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
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> > I thought upgrading to an XP1000 would speed it up somewhat, but it is
> > still slow.
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>    I don't know wht chip was in an XP1000, but I thought it was an EV4.
>    You need at least an EV5 to get decent speed in most browsers.

AlphaStation XP1000 is EV6. AlphaServer 1000(A) had EV4 and EV5
variants.

http://www.compaq.com/alphaserver/workstations/retired/xpseries/xp1000/index.html

http://www.compaq.com/alphaserver/archive/comp/july96.html

Usual responses to "it is too slow" apply - what resource limit is
causing the perceived slow performance? CPU? Memory? Disk IO? Network
IO? And proceed from there. It would seem fairly unlikely that an EV6
doing simple web browsing would be compute bound, but confirming where
the bottleneck lies is what MONITOR is for.