[Info-vax] VAX 6000 on Young Sheldon

Steven Schweda sms.antinode at gmail.com
Sun Feb 12 15:14:11 EST 2023


> The difference in floating point performance between a straight 11/780
> and a Sparcstation I was absolutely staggering. [...]

   Well, duh.  "absolutely staggering" is how I might describe the _age_
of a VAX-11/780 when the SPARCstation 1 was released (1989).  A decade
later, the SPARCstation 1 might have been less impressive, too.  (As I
recall, it was.)



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