Cromemco landmarks

From: One Without Reason <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Thu Nov 8 08:25:22 2001

On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Allison wrote:

> 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!

That, and there were much faster machines than VAXen back then.

Peace... Sridhar

> Cromemco was pretty neat but first, fastest not hardly.
>
> Allison
>
>
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