the world is not all vaxen

[Stan Barber]

In article <508 at baylor.UUCP> peter at baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> I have run benchmarks on many machines from CONVEX to
>> PDP-11/23 and I KNOW that for computation the VAX is bad in price/performance.
>
>True. And an 11/70 outperforms it in multiuser benchmarks.
>

Show me. I have yet to see ANYONE produce such results. I have run two
copies of what I use for benchmarks and in many cases, the VAX is still
slower.... Celerity is an excellant example. Of course, it should be 
realized that multiuser benchmarks are hard to do since the memory/swap
issue becomes very important when multiple invocations are concerned.
I am not sure that there is a good standrard metric for multiuser 
benchmarks that takes all these things into account (cache, memory,
swap, FPA, etc.).

>
>In the mini market. How many *micros* running UNIX would you trust with 35
>users doing cs-project type stuff at once?
>

Not many, but the real point is that you can buy a bunch of small computers
that run faster than a VAX for the price of a VAX. What is the difference
between 3 micros with 10 users each and one vax with 35 users? The cost and 
perfomance (higher throughput with the 3 computers) are the main ones.

>	Peter (Made in Australia) da Silva



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