I think the 0.9 VUPS figure came from the Vaxstation 2000 

Speaking of PDP's is there any work on porting NetBSD to them? (probably not the 11/23, but maybe an 11/73 ?)

If I had a working set of PDP11 hardware I'd give it a crack. (providing gcc does in fact still generate pdp code)

(you can run V5 UNIX on a pdp w/o a pdp- there's  a pdp11 simulator and OS dists (V5-V7 UNIX, and RT-11) on gatekeeper.dec.com)

I have seen references to Linux/pdp11  (Is that one step forward and two back? Or maybe just full circle?)

	-Paul

-----Original Message-----
From:	Dave McGuire [SMTP:mcguire@neurotica.com]
Sent:	Monday, October 13, 1997 7:57 PM
To:	Allison J Parent
Cc:	port-vax@NetBSD.ORG
Subject:	Re: Vax up and running!

On October 13, you wrote:
> And a PDP-11/23 is about .2-3vup and the then supreme 4mhz/Z80 was 
> considered about 80-100 milliVUPS.

  Yes, but you can replace the clock oscillator on the '23.  I've had
one running up to 20MHz with no problems.  It was quite nice at the
time.  I just about flunked out of high school because of spending so
much time at home hacking on that machine. :)

> Also 3100s were more than .9, I think that family started with the Cvax at 
> 2.5!  I know the 3100m76 is about 7.8.

  The original 3100 was 2.8, the later 3100s were 3.8.  For the other
"numbered" 3100 machines, the last number is the VUPs rating...so the
3100/38 is 3.8 VUPs, and the 3100/76 is 7.6...


                      -Dave McGuire
                       mcguire@neurotica.com