Vax 11/780 performance vs Sun 4/280 performance

[Greg Franks]

>I also tried forking 32 `for(;;) ;' loops on a 3/60 with 8-mb.
>Each process got about 3 percent of the CPU and the reponse was
>still quote good for interactive work.  This stuff about a `knee'
>at 7 processes just isn't real...

However, the 32 processes do nothing but chew up CPU cycles.  Add some
disk I/O, other random interrupts, and a desire for memory to your test. 

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