Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mimsy!cvl!umd5!zben From: zben@umd5 (Ben Cranston) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Unix on Univac 1160 Message-ID: <1392@umd5> Date: Sat, 13-Dec-86 20:37:53 EST Article-I.D.: umd5.1392 Posted: Sat Dec 13 20:37:53 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Dec-86 01:22:08 EST References: <501@brl-sem.ARPA> <1540@uwmcsd1.UUCP> Reply-To: zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston) Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 23 Summary: PEP also considered useful for non-Unix systems Xref: mnetor comp.misc:46 comp.unix.questions:350 In article <1540@uwmcsd1.UUCP> jgd@uwmcsd1.UUCP (John G Dobnick) writes: > Unisys markets System V.? for 1100 series machines under the name SX/1100. ? = standard SVR2 except for shell layers, SVR3 expected 4th quarter 87. > [something about it being a dog..] > Another "product" called PEF (Performance Enhancement Feature) corrects > this by increasing the efficiency of the memory allocator. This is > [in my opinion] a *bug fix*, but they still charge for it. PEP is algorithms that deal with large process queues, and is even useful if one is running 140 or more simultanious users on a NON-Unix Unisys... > [I think their Marketing people were trying to emulate Itty Bitty > on this one.] Probably true... But Big Blue made Big Bux that way, and the Unisys guys have mortgages and hungry children to feed just like we do... -- umd5.UUCP <= {seismo!mimsy,ihnp4!rlgvax}!cvl!umd5!zben Ben Cranston zben @ umd2.UMD.EDU Kingdom of Merryland UniSys 1100/92 umd2.BITNET "via HASP with RSCS"