Cromemco landmarks

From: Allison <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Thu Nov 8 07:22:51 2001

From: M H Stein <mhstein_at_usa.net>

>And that in 1987 an XXU equipped system was almost twice as fast as a
>VAX 11/780, which cost over four times as much as the largest Cromemco
>system at the time.


Sounds impressive...save for in 1987 the VAX11/780 was 9 years old and
out of widespread use!! By 1987 the microVAX had been around for a while,
the midrange VAX was 4x-8x faster than the 780 and easily 1/3 the size!

Cromemco was pretty neat but first, fastest not hardly.

Allison
Received on Thu Nov 08 2001 - 07:22:51 GMT