gauging interest in VAX 6000-530

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Sun Oct 24 23:06:56 1999

On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Bill Pechter wrote:
>> <I certainly know for a fact that UNIBUS performed very poorly. I don't hav
>> <data at my fingertips, but it seems to me it was around 10 Mb/s (that
>> <megabits/sec) peak throughput. [I prefer measuring throughputs in bits/se
>> <since that normalizes across different bus widths.]
>> Allison
>
>I seem to remember real world Unibus was mentioned to be up to
>1-1.2 Megabytes/second so your number may be right. I often wondered
>if it really got that high in real life...

  Unibus runs to 7mb/sec...slow, yes, but not bad for the time it was designed
and [very widely] used, IMO. I rather like Unibus.

            -Dave McGuire
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