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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2015-06-22, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> On 2015-06-15 15:36, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> Interrupt response times on the PDP-11 are way better than on VAXen, 
> which led to people not wanting to downgrade from a PDP-11 to a VAX...
>

Now you've mentioned it, I now vaguely remember reading something about
that as well.

Thanks Johnny.

Simon.

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