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On 04/02/2019 13:07, Paul Hardy wrote:
> 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.
>
Wonderful! best use for a Pi yet! Does it run actual VMS?



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