Subject: Re: Vaxstation 3100 support
To: Jerome Tonneson <jerome@m-net.arbornet.org>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 07/16/1998 04:56:44
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Jerome Tonneson wrote:
>>>>NetBSD/vax on this "Vaxstation 3100 M38".  However, the support pages show
>>>Yes, this machine will run NetBSD/vax very nicely.
>>could you give a performance estimate? :-)
>
>Off the top of my head?  (Someone jump in here if I'm wrong...) I'm thinking
>it's on the order of maybe a 386/16 or so.  Not a power house, but with
>NetBSD, it's still a pretty good system.

  I'd say more along the lines of a /20 or /25 that takes load very gracefully,
which the '386 does not.

                -Dave McGuire