> On Jan 2, 2022, at 5:11 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > On 1/2/22 5:20 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: >> I keep thinking about it, but no. The 780 was neat from a historical >> perspective, and the 785 at UMBC (UMBC5) ran Ultrix (and was on the ARPANET, >> not the crappy Bitnet the 8600's were on) > Is that Bitnet as in the Because it was there network that many IBM > mainframes were on? > >> but the 780 was really slow. I have a Microvax II here that would equal it >> CPU speed-wise, and the running of the main memory on the SBI was cool for >> the 782 option but was pretty slow. > > Can I ask for a rough translation in to comparative VAX Units of Performance > (VUPs)? I /think/ that the VAX 11/780 was 1 VUP.
VAX-11/780 = 1 VUP VAX-11/782 = 1.8 VUP MicroVAX 1 = 0.3 VUP MicroVAX 2 = 0.7 VUP Zane