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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-06-22 19:07, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

I shan't quote the RSX kernel sources on the topic here. Too much 
flamebait for VMS people... ;-)

	Johnny