[Tfug] Ping - Gordon Zaft

[Gordon Zaft]

 Wow, I go out of town for a couple of days and look
what happens...

 Tom's answer said pretty much everything I would have
said, and then some.

 Yes, a TPS is a transaction/second, it's a DB thing. 
a VUP is "VAX unit of performance", about a MIP (1 VUP
is the processing power of a VAX 11/780).

 If you are going to run a QBus VAX the 4000/200 is
the Cadillac.  Honestly, though, for home use, unless
you are truly sick and twisted, I'd go for a
VAXstation 4000 of some sort -- they are as fast or
faster, much smaller, have built in SCSI, and eat much
less power.

GZ
--- Choprboy <choprboy@dakotacom.net> wrote:
> Hey Gordon, you listening?
> 
> A *nix question as I just had a truly sick thought
> and you were listed as a 
> contributer of knowledge when I googled. What do you
> know about the Vax 
> 4000-200? I had the idle thought of picking one up
> off Ebay, (just to show 
> off) and run *nix on it. Looks like NetBSD may run
> on it????
> 
> Can you tell me what a good vs. bad TPS is for a
> Vax. And what's "Vup" mean?
> 
> 
> Adrian
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