Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 16:18:48 -0600 (MDT) From: Roger Ivie Subject: Re: ClosedDos??? To: OPENDOS AT delorie DOT com Message-id: <01INY6SBBH9IBJU25A@cc.usu.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Precedence: bulk Can't we move some of this discussion to a *.advocacy newsgroup somewhere? Arkanoid wrote: >> From: Christopher Croughton >> I wasn't keen on the MicroVAXen, they weren't really competitive with >> other processors even when they came out. > >That is not true (at least). Modern MicroVAXen have performance not less >than Alpha systems of that size. FWIW, it's been my experience that a VAX can keep pace with an Alpha that is running at twice the clock rate. The fundamental difficulty is that it didn't take long for Alphas to start running more than twice the clock rate of the fastest VAXen; that is the fundamental magic of RISC. The fastest VAXen run at 166MHz or thereabout. The fastest Alphas run 600 MHz. Much as I love my VAXen, there's no way a top-of-the-line VAX can keep up with a top-of-the-line Alpha. Roger Ivie ivie AT cc DOT usu DOT edu