[Info-vax] VAX 6000 on Young Sheldon

[Neil Rieck]

On Monday, February 6, 2023 at 12:05:09 PM UTC-5, Volker Halle wrote:
> Neil Rieck schrieb am Montag, 6. Februar 2023 um 14:04:47 UTC+1: 
> 
> > I recall seeing VUPs numbers for the 8000 series but does anyone have VUP numbers for the 6000 family?
> Neil, 
> 
> here are VUPS numbers for all sorts of VAX systems: 
> 
> http://www.vaxmacro.de/vvcc.html 
> 
> Volker.

Thanks for this. So it appears that our VAX-6000 was more powerful (VUP-wise) than VAX-8550.

On a related note, I was isolated from a most  monetary charges up until 1995. At that time I became aware of the total all-in costs of building a VAXcluster (each processor required an VMS license but the whole thing also required a Cluster license which, IIRC, was double the cost of a VMS licence). 

Compare this to a standalone VAX-6000 where you only needed to buy one VMS license. We bought an additional CPU from a third-party source but needed to buy an SMP license from DEC to enable it. IIRC, it cost only $100.

Now I know that I'm comparing apples to oranges here but maybe our VAXclusters were overkill. It would be a different story for applications where cluster nodes were in different buildings (and/or cities)

Neil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
https://neilrieck.net