Subject: Re: Slowest NetBSD Machine [Was: sun3 usefullness.... ]
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 03/11/1998 14:41:50
On March 11, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> > > From the conversation I had w/ Mouse at the San Jose IETF, he has a[n HP
> > > 9000] 320, and yes, it's one of the slowest machines that runs NetBSD; I
> > > think the 11/780 is slower, though.
> > 
> > Well, we also run on the 11/750, which is quite noticably slower
> > than a 780. We might even have 11/730 support by now, which would
> > probably take the cake pretty easily.
> 
> _How_ slow are those three? I just want to mention that NetBSD has been run
> on 68020+68881 Amigas, at a clock rate of err... 14 MHz? or 28? Hubert?
> 
> Maybe we should run some dhrystone on all of them ;-)

  A 14MHz 68020 runs rings around a VAX-11/730.  Quite a bit faster
than an 11/750, too, but only in terms of raw CPU performance.


                            -Dave McGuire
                             mcguire@neurotica.com