[Info-vax] Unix on A DEC Vax?

[Paul Sture]

In article <a73aa562-f461-4856-a4d5-b903aca2706a at googlegroups.com>,
 "Stanley F. Quayle" <stanley.f.quayle at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hoff, I don't understand what you mean when you say an emulator is slow.  The 
> various commercial emulators are faster than their physical counterparts.  
> No, it's not a VAX running with a 3 GHz clock, but it is still faster.
> 
> The important part is how well the customer's application runs.  A lot of the 
> big wins are in improved disk speed.  I have a customer (www.stanq.com/wf1) 
> that reduced their backup time by a factor of 8.

Having seen the speed of shadow copies under SimH and the free Alpha 
emulators the improved disk speeds are no surprise.  Is the full backup 
time for CHARON-VAX quoted on your web page to tape or disk?

> The only complaint was that the users thought the system was "too fast".

:-)

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Paul Sture