[Info-vax] Y3K for PDP-11 Operating Systems

[Bob Koehler]

In article <92raajFe87U1 at mid.individual.net>, vandys at vsta.org writes:
> 
> I think it was most competetive when you used multiple of its more optimized
> instructions.  For instance, my recollection is that the single-instruction
> bulk string ops ran slower than the hand coded move/loop constructs.  (Most
> of my time was on 750's and the odd 780, and this no doubt changed as DEC
> fleshed out their Vax line.)

   Out experiences on 11/780 were the opposite of that, until we got MV II, 
   where those instructions were emulated.