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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: VAX 3100 Slow!
Message-ID: <21170@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 2 May 91 18:39:05 GMT
References: <7453@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <7453@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> jls2@spdcc.COM (Jeff Stoner) writes:
> 
> 
> Hi all. We have several DECstation 3100s (the RISC boxes) and a
> VAXStation 3100 (the VAX CPU), all running at 4.0 or 4.1 of Ultrix.
> 
> I am received complaints that the VAX 3100 is "intolerably slow".
> I understand that the VAX CPU will be inherently slower than the RISC ones,
> but is there anything I can do to speed up the VAX? I don't have
> Ultrix source code, but anything else would be fair game.

Nobody who has used a DECstation 3100 or Sparc I/II is going to find the
VAXstation performance acceptable.  Give it to some VMS freaks (where it's
pretty sad too 8-) or find some non-critical application for it.

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