[Info-vax] Why it is a good idea that OpenVMS isn't on x86-64 just yet

[Bob Koehler]

In article <c82c8648-aa2e-4f2c-b468-c0e9e1bd9214 at googlegroups.com>, Hans Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> writes:
> For a brief period the 8650 was a very fast VAX. With a slow UNIBUS. The VA=
> X 8550 corrected that. We added a refurbished 8650 to a cluster which had t=
> wo 11/750's and an 8250 :-). Users complained loudly about missed coffee br=
> eaks, jobs that ran for 15 minutes plus on the 11/750 completed in 60 secon=
> ds.
> Never experienced that kind of performance impact ever since.
> Hans

   Never had a VAX 8000.  But had a whole bunch of MacroVAXen when we
   purchased the smallest, slowest Alpha DEC produced.

   Now that's a performace impact.