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

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Dennis Boone <drb at ihatespam.msu.edu> wrote:
> > With the 11/780 being the first VAX running VMS I used, I would agree.
> > It was a dog.  And we won't even go into what happened to performance
> > when some Lieutenant decided to compile something in Ada.  Was a good
> > time to go to lunch, or in most cases just go home for the day.
 
> The 780 wasn't _that_ bad.  I worked on one that tended to have 60+
> interactive users, and two or three batch compiles, all going at the
> same time.  It was certainly slow at that point, but that's a hell
> of a workload for a 1MIP machine.

Many of them might have had less real memory than appropriate
for the use and load.  With enough real memory, the processor is
plenty fast enough.

-- glen