Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!rutgers!dayton!ems!meccts!pwcs!dennisg From: dennisg@pwcs.StPaul.GOV (Dennis Grittner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Why is A/UX disk I/O only 50KB/sec? Message-ID: <3242@pwcs.StPaul.GOV> Date: Mon, 27-Jul-87 18:27:01 EDT Article-I.D.: pwcs.3242 Posted: Mon Jul 27 18:27:01 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 29-Jul-87 01:54:18 EDT References: <2363@ames.arpa> <344@swanee.OZ> <777@unccvax.UUCP> <3327@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Reply-To: dennisg@pwcs.StPaul.GOV (Dennis Grittner) Organization: City of St. Paul Public Works Lines: 23 In article <3327@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> woody@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (William Edward Woody) writes: >In article <777@unccvax.UUCP> cbenda@unccvax.UUCP (carl m benda) writes: >... Deleted material comparing Mac II with VAX 11/750 with 5 people on it > Lots of stuff removed >Uh, shouldn't you really be addressing computing power per dollar? I mean, >sure, you can blow a Mac II out of the water with an unloaded VAX 11/750, >but is a VAX 11/750 around here ever unloaded? And for 1 VAX 11/750, how More stuff removed - A Vax 11/750 can't really touch a Mac II in almost any area of performance. Certainly not simple computer speed, not MFLOPS, and probably not I/O under many conditions. The 750 ( or 780 ) is/was a dog ( performance wise ). -- Dennis Grittner City of Saint Paul, Minnesota (612) 298-4402 Room 700, 25 W. 4th St. 55102