DS200 and some other DEC stuff...

From: Adam Fritzler <afritz_at_delphid.ml.org>
Date: Wed Aug 12 11:01:19 1998

On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Allison J Parent wrote:
> < near what he wanted! From what I can tell the DS5500 would be not much
> < more than a rare novelty (it IS a Qbus-based MIPS, after all), let alone
> < competitor to modern servers. (I don't think it was even that much fast
> < than it's TC relatives.)
>
> TC??? It was a fast machine when it was introduced. fast compared to
> modern with PII/233s and the like is a unfair comparison.

I was just going by the TPS performance figures from DEC's big list on
their web site. It listed it at a mere 21 TPS, with the TC DS5k's running
around 19TPS. It also listed much newer AS200 4/233's (which can be had
for less than $400s these days) at 198 TPS (ir, 9x faster). This is why
the price seemed ridiculous. It appears these are not very good numbers
to go by! The DS5500 appears to be rare enough that no one knows too much
about it (none of the free unix-derivs support it, and there's barely any
mention of it elsewhere).
 
> < I'd like explanation on the DECmate as well, but that seems like it woul
> < be a FAQ by now.
>
> crank up your web thingie and follow the PDP-8 trail. The DECmate series
> is a PDP-8 in CMOS clothing. There are some BIG faq out there for that
> one.

Thanks.

af

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