Subject: Re: Vax up and running!
To: Brian Chase <brianc@carpediem.com>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/13/1997 19:53:37
On October 13, you wrote:
> 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.

  It was VAX Units of Performance, as I recall.

> * 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.

  That is *so* much fun! :)


          -D.