Mainframe stuff...

From: Absurdly Obtuse <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Thu Sep 20 00:04:11 2001

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Eric Dittman wrote:

> The numbers above are the VUPs. The DSN listing for the /90 and /90A are off
> by 10. I got ambitious and ran some more tests. The /90 is 32-33 and the
> /90A is 38-39. The VAX 7730 systems at work are 150 VUPs.

Makes sense. Do you know if the 7650 is faster than the 7730 or not?

> What's interesting when reviewing the list is to see how the bus architecture
> impacts the VUPs on identical CPUs. For instance the 7610 is 35 VUPs but the
> 6610 is only 32 VUPs.

Are they indeed identical? Down to the clock speed? I knew Laserbus was
faster than XMI, but I didn't know the difference was this wide.

Peace... Sridhar
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