On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Charles Redmond wrote:

> I'm running the following pmax hardware at home:
> DS 5k/240 NetBSD 1.4.1
> DS 5k/240 Ultrix 4.5
> DS 5k/133 Ultrix 4.5
> and as of last night
> DS 5k/33 NetBSD 1.5
>
> Of all the machines the 33 with 1.5 is slowest, in fact text scrolling
> (I have no X running yet as I want to setup icewm) is bordering on unuseable. where did the performance go in 1.5 ?
> I would liken it's "feel" to more like a 3100 than a 5000 series!

Heh, dont denigrate the 3100. In my experience, it is faster (at least in
X) than a 5000/133, probably because of the overhead of the 12.5 MHz TC
bus on the 5000/133. The 5000 will get faster when accelerated X support
(for PMAGB-xx) is available...


Peter Wallace