[Info-vax] OT: obscure PDP11 OSes (even more dinosaury)

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Mon Jun 15 09:36:20 EDT 2015


On 2015-06-15, Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl> wrote:
> bill at server3.cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
>>
>> Of course, all of this still doesn't explain how the VAX was
>> "a best-seller" when compared to the PDP-11 when the PDP-11
>> sold 50% more systems.
>>
>
> Because one VAX could do the work of several PDP-11's?

In the early days of the VAX, wasn't there some literature floating
around showing how the PDP-11 was faster at some things than the VAX ?

This was before my time however so I may be wrongly remembering
something I read in the past.

Simon.

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