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Article #4210Re: VAX 11/780 # 1 is retired
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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 1990 12:55
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 1990 12:55
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In article <1990Aug20....@specialix.co.uk> jo...@specialix.co.uk (Jon Brawn) writes: dev...@shodha.dec.com (Bob Devine) writes: ... > Now the system that started it all is history, replaced by a VAXstation 3500 >with almost three times the performance in less than half the space. Uhuh - I make that a six-fold increase in performance per cubic foot - forgive me, DEC, but isn't this a little low? In twelve years, with all the amazing developments in silicon processes and the such, why such a short fall in increased performance? Half the space is only correct for the footprint of the machines; the height differs MUCH more -- I think by a factor of ~10. So the increase of performance per cubic foot is about 60 -- enough? (I'm not sure about the height; just what I remember from seeing photos.) -- ----------------- Juergen Nickelsen nick...@mikroperipherik.e-technik.tu-berlin.dbp.de
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!tub!tubopal!opal!bsp09 From: bs...@audrey.cs.tu-berlin.de (Uebung bsp) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: VAX 11/780 # 1 is retired Message-ID: <BSP09.90Aug27145539@audrey.cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: 27 Aug 90 12:55:39 GMT References: <1561@shodha.dec.com> <1990Aug20.090626.2368@specialix.co.uk> Sender: news@tubopal.UUCP Reply-To: nick...@mikroperipherik.e-technik.tu-berlin.dbp.de Organization: Technical University of Berlin Lines: 22 Posted: Mon Aug 27 13:55:39 1990 In-reply-to: jonb@specialix.co.uk's message of 20 Aug 90 09:06:26 GMT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit