[Info-vax] VAX 6000 on Young Sheldon

[Single Stage to Orbit]

On Sun, 2023-02-12 at 12:14 -0800, Steven Schweda wrote:
> > 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.)

I once had a SunBlade 2500 with dual 1.2GHz processors. The newer
x86_64 machines were a lot more efficient.
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