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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
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Posted: Mon Jul 27 18:27:01 1987
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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
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>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

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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 ).




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