Hum.... well... knowing what I know about HP corporate (their recent breakup
of the business partnership between them and EMC was *VERY* confrontational)
it makes me wonder if EMC purchasing data general isn't a "spite" move. When
HP killed the HP/EMC partnership EMC lost 20% of their revenues...
Jay West
-----Original Message-----
From: allisonp_at_world.std.com <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Monday, August 09, 1999 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: EMC buys Data General
>> >Dhrystone clocks it at 1974 MIPS (aka 1.974 GIPS!) Truely it boggles the
>> >mind. I had to explain to our sysadmin how the uVAX 3900 sitting in my
>> >office was about the speed of a 386/25 and he nearly choked.
>
>First I think that is quite in error. First the clock on the 3900 is well
>above 25mhz and the CISC impmentation of the VAX used there is easily
>more of the 486dx/early Pentium class.
>
>> Yeah but did you explain that you can pile 30 users on that 3900 and
it'll
>> still perform about the same? That's not even possible with current
Wintel
>> hardware.
>>
>> "There's more to computer performance than clock speed, folks."
>
>Bigtime!
>
>back when pc and Vaxen were being pitted, the 386/16 was on par with
>a Vax750 if it had the FPU chip. Otherwise the vax could out math it.
>
>A real compare would be a NT box running many xterms and thin clients
>against a VAX... it would show how weak the PCs are. Vaxen with the high
>throughput IO for storage and all has all the advantages.
>
>Allison
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Received on Mon Aug 09 1999 - 15:37:34 BST