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From: thomas@mipsbx.nac.dec.com (Matt Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.os.vms,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: DECstation 2100/3100
Keywords: performance UNIX vs VMS
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Date: 18 Sep 89 15:12:59 GMT
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> I read in an article in the September MIPS Magazine about the DECstation
> 3100 and 2100. My first questions is that they stated that it was running
> Sys V Unix, Did the the mean ULTRIX?

Yes.

> They also stated that it would outperform most 33 MHZ 386 machines running
> Xenix, What kind of degradation ( if any ) would I see if I ran it under
> VMS.

The DS3100/DS2100 are *not* VAX systems.  They are use the R2000A from
MIPS and so
they do not run VMS.  (would that be total degradation?)

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Matt Thomas                     Internet:   thomas@decwrl.dec.com
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