> > Hehe.  I just caught wind of this interesting benchmark.  I'm not sure how
> > valid it is, but it's interesting.
> > 
> >   http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~kerrigat/bench/
> 
> Well my NT (puke!) crate hauled in at:
> 
> Nodes: 55822
> Best time: 7110 ms
> Nodes per second: 77471 (526.6 MIPS)
> 
> The VAX 3100/20 is still compiling............................... done.
> 
> .....
> 
> > but I'd be curious to see how it shapes up on something like a
> > MicroVAX-II.  The lowest published numbers on the page are for a
> > 486DX2/66.  Come on, certainly we can do worse than that!
> 
> .....
> 
> > So how does your VAX rate? ;-)
> 
> Well, it is puffing, and chugging, and wheezing.... but, I may have
> to go out to lunch before it is done............................. 
> 
> YIKES, it is slow.... I'll be back after lunch, and report its output,
> then.  It's still only in the first loop at the 3rd node..............

After lunch now, and it reports:

Nodes: 385024
Best time: 1000440 ms
Nodes per second: 384 (3.7 MIPS)

Man, that is less that 1/10th the speed of the 486/66 crate, on
that fellow's web page!

YIKES.....(:+{{....

But, we luv VAXentoyz for reasons other than Pentiumwatzitspeed.

Bob