[Info-vax] N-VAX processors and alternative architectures, was: Re: date comparison format from a program

[Dave Froble]

On 5/21/2019 6:00 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2019-05-21, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>
>> There are many jobs today that could be satisfied by a 100 MHz N-VAX.
>> It might have been that VAX could have done the jobs ARM is doing today.
>>
>
> Somehow, I doubt you could run a VAX on a PP3 battery. :-)
>
> Simon.
>

Most of the lower power requirements came from process shrinks.

I'm not a HW guy.

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