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Your current _watch_ is faster than an Alpha AXP. (If you have an Apple Watch) the early ones only pushed in the low hundreds of MIPS. It's crazy to me how my
by postmodest 3y ago
Your current _watch_ is faster than an Alpha AXP. (If you have an Apple Watch) the early ones only pushed in the low hundreds of MIPS.
It's crazy to me how my whole-ass DECServer with 2x EV4's wouldn't even be a good peripheral for portable computers today, and it could run hundreds of interactive user sessions.
- mpweiher 3y agoOur school's PDP-11/34 ( 16 bit, 128K RAM, 5 + 5 Megabyte disk drives) supported about 20 interactive users at a time. We did reduce the baud rate on the ADM-3 terminals to 1200 so the I/O buffering would smooth over some of the swapping.
- NikkiA 3y agoThe big leap up from VMS in terms of performant concurrent users for us was when we switched to using a Sequent Symmetry, now that's another long dead system giant. Poor Dynix.