Benchmarks of 68020's vs Vax's under load

[It takes a clear mind to make it]

In article <603 at modular.UUCP> olson at modular.UUCP (Jon Olson) writes:
>
>I decided to test out some of the theories on the NET about
>Vax's being better at handling alot of jobs and high user loads.
>The benchmarks below show the elapsed time required for 8
>simultaneous optimized compiles of a 3783 line C program on
>each machine, with no other jobs currently running. Here are
>some stats on the machines with the following configurations:
>
>  1) Vax 11/780, 8Mb memory, VMS V4.6, VAX-C V2.4
>  2) MicroVax, 9Mb memory, Ultrix V2.0, Unix PCC compiler
>  3) Sun 3/60, 20Mhz 68020, 8 Mb memory, SUNOS V3.4

A more interesting version of this would run 1 2 4 6 8 12 16 20 users or
so, allowing a graph of results by load.  Any volunteers?

-dB
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