On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 08:27:30AM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> > The 86x0 machines are the last to implement the PDP-11 emulation in
> > "hardware". They have a nice F-11 as a front end processor, which boots
> > from an RL02. The VAX itself is entirely in microcode, which is in the
> > RT-11 frontend file system. Upon boot, the F-11 loads the VAX with the
> > microcode, and off it goes. The VAX itself is very much ECL, pipeline and
> > cache. A plain 8600 is about 4 VUPS, while the 8650 is somewhere around
> > 6.5 VUPS.
> 
> I always wondered: how much dhrystones do you get out of one VUP(S)?

Beats me, but with a little "luck", you could soon be able to test NetBSD
on an 8650 anyway...

	Johnny

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