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)?

Regards,
	-is