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

[William Pechter]

In article <n7igf8$tqd$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>,
Johnny Billquist  <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>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.

I referred to it as the VAX 11/34 equivalent.
Slow, and a bit expensive and the MicroVax II relegated it to the trash
heap.

>
>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.

The one blast I had was installing one on a shag carpet in a 
suburban home in a software developer's house.


>
>	Johnny
>
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