On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Brian Chase wrote:

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> Actually, I should have said VUPs.  VUP stands for VAX Unit of Performance
> with the VAX 11/780 being the reference platform rated at 1 VUP.  With 1
> VUP being nearly the same at a rating of 1.0 MIPS. I'm sure DEC had some
> performance suite for rating their systems, but I'm not aware of any
> benchmarks that determine a VUP rating for a system.

Cool!  Like BogoVUPs? (ducks and runs!)

> 
> -brian.

Bob