[Info-vax] web browsers for VMS on ALPHA

Hans Vlems hvlems at freenet.de
Thu Feb 24 03:37:37 EST 2011


On 21 feb, 22:00, 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.

The XP1000 uses an EV6 cpu.
I use an EV56 machine (Digital Server 5305, two 533 MHz cpu's and 4 GB
memory) to run a browser. No performance complaints.
Hans



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