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From: maiden@beowulf.ucsd.edu (VLSI Layout Project)
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Subject: Re: Why is A/UX disk I/O only 50KB/sec?
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Date: Sat, 25-Jul-87 19:55:34 EDT
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>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

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