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The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
> Yup. A Pi would definitely outrun a PDP/11 And probably a VAX too.

I run an emulated VAX and VMS on a Pi using SimH
(https://github.com/simh/simh) for a software archaeology project. I get
about 7 VUPs (VAX Units of Performance) on a Pi 3B (not a 3B+ which would
do better). It’s amazing to think that a throwaway computer costing £30
will outperform sevenfold a VAX11-780 costing several hundred thousand
pounds in today’s money, even with the software overheads of emulating the
VAX computer architecture on a very different hardware.

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Paul at the paulhardy.net domain

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