Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ll-xn!ames!sdcsvax!beowulf!maiden From: maiden@beowulf.ucsd.edu (VLSI Layout Project) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Why is A/UX disk I/O only 50KB/sec? Message-ID: <3521@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> Date: Sat, 25-Jul-87 19:55:34 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.3521 Posted: Sat Jul 25 19:55:34 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Jul-87 04:39:41 EDT References: <2363@ames.arpa> <344@swanee.OZ> <777@unccvax.UUCP> <3327@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Sender: nobody@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU Reply-To: maiden@beowulf.UUCP (VLSI Layout Project) Organization: EE/CS Dept. U.C. San Diego Lines: 19 >W.E. Woody writes: > ...sure with you can blow a Mac II out of the water with an unloaded > VAX 11/750... Is that really true? I would think that even an unloaded VAX 11-750 might have difficulty "blowing away" a Mac II. I do not have a Mac II running A/UX, but a 80386 machine is perceptably faster than a VAX 750 (a 780 might be a different matter). Not to bring up the old benchmark contraversy or anything, but not all VAX 11/750 's are alike (FPU, # DMA channels, etc.). The point, however, is a good one. Never have I seen an unloaded VAX. An unloaded SUN, perhaps, but not a VAX. Let's keep workstations as workstations, and minis as minis. E. Jung seismo!sdcsvax!maiden or maiden@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu