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In article <1992Nov13.140907.2304@athena.mit.edu> solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:
>In article <1992Nov10.204139.5148@ryn.mro4.dec.com>, bhandarkar@wrksys.enet.dec.com (Dileep Bhandarkar) writes:
>|> This is in response to e-mail requests for more benchmark data.
>|> 
>|>     Alpha AXP OpenVMS (version 1.0) SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE DATA 


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>Based on this data, it is extraordinarily unclear why somebody would be willing
>to go for the 10000 box when the 3000 delivers better than half the performance
>at a TINY fraction of the price. Also, why aren't there any multi-processing
>configurations available?
>
>Jason W. Solinsky


It has always been DEC's position that small systems like workstations
should be limited in ways that the larger systems are not.  For
example, if you need 10 or 12 Ethernet ports, you can't get them in a
small system.  Thus the (current) VAXstation 4000/90 only allows 2
Ethernet ports (using the Turbochannel port) while the VAX 7000/610,
with the same 32VUP processor, allows 16 Ethernet ports.  Similarly,
if you need sophisticated disk access, eg, DSSI, you can only get it
on the larger machine while the smaller one uses SCSI.  Unfortunately,
the choice of a machine in a large system is not as simple as looking
at performance numbers/processor.

Barry Smith