Douglas Bates wrote: > The first VAX at our university, a VAX-11/780, was allegedly a "1 > MIPS" machine but it was pretty difficult to get it to do a million of > any instruction in one second. I eventually succeeded because it had > a special instruction for decrement and branch on zero so if you > loaded a register with 100000 and put it in a tight loop of that one > instruction, it was able to count from 100000 down to zero within a > second. When I bought the second Vax on the campus, a less powerful > Vax-11/750, I was considered extravagant because I equipped it with a > *second* megabyte of memory (at a cost of about $9000).
You will probably remember the unfortunate name-collision with an industrial strength vacuum cleaner. The latter alledgedly had a large advertising campaign with the slogan "Nothing sucks like a VAX". -- Peter Dalgaard Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
