Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site qubix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!zehntel!dual!amd!decwrl!sun!idi!qubix!msc From: msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow) Newsgroups: net.works,net.arch Subject: Re: Performance of VAX/780/750, Pyramid & Sun Message-ID: <1319@qubix.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Aug-84 14:05:37 EDT Article-I.D.: qubix.1319 Posted: Wed Aug 8 14:05:37 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Aug-84 03:39:17 EDT References: <701@sbcs.UUCP> Organization: Qubix Graphic Systems, Saratoga, CA Lines: 20 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. -- From the TARDIS of Mark Callow msc@qubix.UUCP, qubix!msc@decwrl.ARPA ...{decvax,ucbvax}!decwrl!qubix!msc, ...{amd,ihnp4,ittvax}!qubix!msc "Nothing shocks me. I'm an Engineer."