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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-01-18 09:59, Hans Vlems wrote:
> The 11/750 was a nice cost effective alternative to the 11/780 at the time it was launched. The 11/780 had a serious price tag. Just the box itself with memory, no peripherals, would be around $750.000 (iirc :). For that money you had quite a nice 11/750 configuration at 60% of the performance and less than half the power bill. I cannot remember the cost of VMS and layered products, the 11/750 would save a lot of money there too I'd expect.
> The 11/780 was just meeting its design specifications while rumor had it that the 11/750 was slowed down because without that it nearly ran as fast as the 11/780.

I sortof doubt they intentionally slowed down the 11/750. But in its 
time, it was a nice system. As you say, the only alternative was the 
11/780, which was *way* larger.

The 11/730, on the other hand, went too far, I think. Smaller than the 
11/750, but not by that much, since the 11/750 was already pretty small. 
But the performance of the 11/730... Ugh.

11/750 was pretty successful, as far as I can remember. You could see 
them almost everywhere. Still plenty of them running 10 years later.

	Johnny

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