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From: loverso@encore.UUCP (John LoVerso)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: pdp-11/55
Message-ID: <1998@encore.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Oct-87 10:12:58 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  6 10:12:58 1987
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In article <2949@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
> As I remember, the 11/45 was capable of having a certain amount
> (8kbytes?) of MOS or bipolar ram in place of some of the core.  Anybody
> ever have a 45 so equiped?  Did it make much difference?

The answer is in the time(1) manual page from 4.3 dating back to v7:

	"On a PDP-11, the execution time can depend upon what kind of
	 memory the program happens to land in; the user time in MOS
	 is often half what it is in core."

John Robert LoVerso
Encore Computer Corp
encore!loverso, loverso@multimax.arpa