VAX 3100 Slow!
George Robbins
grr at cbmvax.commodore.com
Fri May 3 04:39:05 AEST 1991
In article <7453 at spdcc.SPDCC.COM> jls2 at 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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