On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Gene Buckle wrote:

> > "Check out my wickedly complex Ultra-CISC MicroVAX II.  Bet your Pentium
> > II 300MHz can't crank out 0.9 VUPS like this baby can!  RISC is passe,
> > Ultra-CISC is where it's at man."

> *chuckle*  You'd be hard pressed to _find_ someone that owned a PII/300 
> that even new what a VUP was...  Which if memory serves, 1 VUP is the 
> equivalent to an 11/780, right? *grin*

Yes, the 11/780 is the unit measure by which all of the vast VAX universe
is metered.  Trivia for newbies: A VUP is a VAX Unix of Processing Power*
(I guess the power is silent), so technically/semantically/whatever 
nothing but a VAX can truly be rated in VUPS.

-brian.

* VUP also happens to be the noise that burning green plastic army guys
make when firey drips of liquid plastic fall from them towards the ground.
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