OS's In ROM's (was: Re: Mac Classic prob (was

From: Huw Davies <H.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Tue Jun 30 01:45:23 1998

At 07:08 AM 29-06-98 -0400, Allison J Parent wrote:
>
><Certainly my 11/83 is a micro/mini/as fast as an VAX-11/780 so I'm not su
><whether its a micro/mini/super-mini :-)
>
>11/83 is fast but it's still pdp-11 and VAX-11/780 was 32bit while raw
>MIPS the 83 is up there, addressing a 15meg database would clearly
>seperate the two.

I know which one I'd like to move around too :-) Indeedy the 11-780 could
handle some things better. CPU MIPS ain't everything, otherwise my HP320LX
would be better than the DECsystem-10 I used to work on. The HP has more
memory and a faster CPU, of course it wins out on portability and power
consumption but misses out on desirability :-)

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