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Started by Rich Williams
Wed, 04 Oct 1995 00:00
Still looking for help with specs.
Author: Rich Williams
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 00:00
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 00:00
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********* Sorry if this is the wrong group ************
************ But I didn't see my Post make ************
********* it to comp.sys.dec so please no ************
***************** flames :-) thank you. ************
Hi, I have a couple of dumb questions for the dec people
out there.
Sales people are recommending some changes to the MV 4200
at my mothers work. I am a Sun Unix guy and have no clue
so I am calling on the resources of the net to educate
me.
What is a VUP? What are the advantages of a MV 3100-XX
over a MV 4200 (Other than twice the max memory)? How
much speed improvement should one expect with the only
changes being 3100-85 or 3100-96 over a 4200 same amount
of memory and disk?
What should you pay for something like a MV 3100-96?
Does $59,000.00 sound a little much?
Sorry like I said I am a Sun UNIX guy. Thanks for any
light you can shine on the subject.
Best regards,
Rich Williams \ Systems Administrator
rvw@math.purdue.edu \ Purdue University
http://www.math.purdue.edu/~rvw\ Department of Mathematics
#include <std/disclaimer.h> \ West Lafayette, IN 47907
"Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects."
W. Rogers
Re: Still looking for help with specs.
Author: Jeffrey L. Bell
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 00:00
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 00:00
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In a previous article, Rich Williams <rvw@banach.math.purdue.edu> wrote: >Hi, I have a couple of dumb questions for the dec people >out there. >... >What is a VUP? Vax Unit of Performance It's performance relative to an 11/780. -Jeff
Re: Still looking for help with specs.
Author: Joe Pollizzi
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1995 00:00
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In article <44sm04$sur@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>, rvw@banach.math.purdue.edu (Rich Williams) writes:
|>********* Sorry if this is the wrong group ************
|>************ But I didn't see my Post make ************
|>********* it to comp.sys.dec so please no ************
|>***************** flames :-) thank you. ************
|>
I'm surprised you didn't hear anything there. Did you try comp.os.vms?
Typically the real techie types watch those newsgroups.
|>
|>What is a VUP?
You heard this already. Its about 1 mip (the aprox cycle time of a VAX-780)
|>What are the advantages of a MV 3100-XX
|>over a MV 4200 (Other than twice the max memory)? How
|>much speed improvement should one expect with the only
|>changes being 3100-85 or 3100-96 over a 4200 same amount
|>of memory and disk?
|>
I'm not real familar with these products anymore (I assume by mv you are
refering to microvax.) But you can go look a lot of this up directly
using Digital's pages.
1) follow the links to http://www.digital.com
2) at the bottom of the box you'll notice what looks like pull down
menu choices or buttons. Click on "search"
3) This puts you in Digital's rather extensive catalog search. Type
in what you're looking for (i.e. I tried 4200 to see what hit) and
it will return with a number of references in various papers, press
releases even their product catalog on that phrase.
I'm not sure you'll be able to find price information - but you should
be able to scrounge any technical details you're looking for
Good Luck,
- joe
v.p. DECUS US
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*Joe Pollizzi pollizzi@stsci.edu Caution - ex Techie who still *
*Space Telescope Science Institute thinks he knows what he's talking *
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