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From: msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow)
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Subject: Re: Performance of VAX/780/750, Pyramid & Sun
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Date: Wed, 8-Aug-84 14:05:37 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  8 14:05:37 1984
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These benchmarks would have been interesting but I have to treat them
as questionable due to the claim of running them on a Sun-1 under
4.2BSD.  There is no such beast (unless you did it yourself;  if so
I like to know how you dealt with page faults).

You might have a Sun-1.5 running 4.1c (which Sun have referred to
as the Berkeley Beta Release of 4.2).  The Sun-1.5 is very slow
due to an additional wait state Sun had to add.  The 4.1c release
(Sun 0.4) is very unloved around here.  People found it slow and
liable to crash.

Now a Sun-2 running 4.2 (Sun Release 1.1) is a very different proposition.
It is fast (Our users perceive it as twice as fast as Sun1.5/4.1c).  It
is also reliable.  It would make a very nice personal computer.
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