>My main belief is that nobody is going to keep a VAX anything running with
>dozens of simultaneous users. So, if a VAX is to be something close
>to "useful" today, it'll be in single-user mode. In that case, Integer
>performance is very important.
Ah, to bad you don't know what you're talking about here. I know of a
certain major corporation that just got done putting a whole pile of new
VAX 7000's in a brand new computer room. Said corporation has numerous
computer rooms with VAXen, and these systems are heavily used.
>Hey, I'm not saying the original IBM PC was going to outperform the VAX 6500;
>but a modern PC will crush any VAX in any application, IMHO, with equivalent
>h/w attached.
Speed isn't everything. I'd rather have a nice VAX than a modern PC,
you've also got to consider the fact that PC's aren't the most reliable of
platforms, and most run an OS that totally sucks!
Zane
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Received on Sun Oct 24 1999 - 19:48:38 BST