On Wednesday 09 June 2010, Carl Lowenstein wrote: > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Hittner, David T (IS) > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Be careful if you are using the wireless NIC of the netbook. Read > > the SIMH FAQ about wireless Ethernet, particularly the info about > > Decnet Phase IV compatibility, and be prepared to adjust cluster > > timeouts as required; significant delays can occur during wireless > > disruptions. > > > > As to VUPs, the netbook can't be worse than a VAX-780 :-) > > Surely you jest. The speed of CPUs has increased by three orders of > magnitude since the days of the VAX-780. Measured nowadays in GHz > not MHz. So it would take a lot of interpretive overhead to throw > that away. > > As I recall, the 780 was about 0.5 MHz, and the run-of-the-mill > netbooks are 1.6 GHz.
10MHz according to my 11/780 maintenance manual, unless you mean 0.5MIPS which I hear is close to accurate (1VUP anyways). Of course, the I/O speed on the 780 is a lot better than a ~1VUP VAXstation would be.. Pat -- Purdue University Research Computing --- http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/ The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
