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From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Historical architectural advances??
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Date: 10 Oct 90 23:49:34 GMT
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In article <2750@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>  Compare it to the mini's being sold at the time, and the mainframes.
>The VAX was a major step forward in price/performance.

Using your fingers to do addition is an incredible performance/price ratio
(since price is 0).  Price/performance has never, as far as I can tell, been
an indication of a computers "class" (micro, mini, mainframe, super).

The 750 and 780 had horrible performance; most current micros can outperform
them (with the exception of I/O), and their I/O performance is low-end mini,
even for the day and age.

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