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From: jps@apollo.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: bsd unix vs dec's vms
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Date: Thu, 30-Apr-87 00:44:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Apr 30 00:44:00 1987
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>I need to obtain performance figures to compare bsd unix
>and dec's vms. I will apreciate if anyone can send me
>that kind of data (and to which I can make a reference...)
 
You'll probably get a couple of hundred responses in this
vein but here's the first one:

It depends on what you want to do.

    examples:
        - If you want to spawn many jobs, bsd would probably
          win hands down.
        - If you want optimal performance on a system that
          has heterogenous computing tasks (ya know, somebody
          is calculating an fft, while someone else does a
          db query while the secretary types a letter) you'll
          find that vms will tend to be better.

There probably about a million of examples so if you could
narrow you focus you'll probably get some better feedback.

/*** OPINION ON ***/
On of the great things about VMS is that (in general) if you
have enough money (and that might be alot) you can buy the
performance that you need.  On the other hand
it doesn't matter how much money you have,  you can't put
UNIX in a situation where it matters whether it works or not.