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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <mlmkcj$l6e$2 at dont-email.me>,
	Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> 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.
> 

Ignoring some things like available memory, given a benchmark designed
to run in the capabilities of the PDP-11/93 mine easily outperforms any
MicroVAX II I ever had.  And they came in exactly the same size box.  :-)

bill

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