AT&T 3B2 system

[brad at bradley.UUCP]

As I understand it, the floating point hardware will take away four
ports from the machine.  Whether or not it has hardware floating point
is now reason for it to be about 6 times slower than an IBM PC with no
8087.  I had the chance to see a 3b2 and it took over 18 minutes to run a simple
program while on the IBM it took 3:47 and 9 sec on my  11/73 and 6 sec on my
11/44.  If people are interested I can post the results.  I still think that
the 3b2 has a long way before it will fit into the market.

BTW: We also have an 11/40 with a 'C' compiler that didn't use the hardware
floating point on it (Version 6) and the 40 almost beat the 3b2.

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