Re(2): [SunRescue] Offerings

Patrick Shoaf pshoaf at midmon.com
Wed Aug 18 10:32:35 CDT 1999


At 11:10 AM 8/16/99 -0500, you wrote:
>rescue at sunhelp.org,Internet writes:
> >Makes you wonder what the reaction would be to a highly-specced SS20
> >sitting on top of a PDP-11 the size of a filing cabinet...
>
>Lets be fair, pick a little sparc, say a SS2, and put it on top of an
>early PDP11 in a full 7' Rack, with 8" floppies and Core memory.  It's
>obvious the PDP is more powerful, just listen to it run. :-)
Better yet, why not compare any of these machine to the older machines, 
IBM-360, or IBM-370.  They were single process machines, had 64K of CORE 
memory were 6' high, 3' wide and 5' deep, and that was just the processor & 
memory.  The 10M hard drive were 4' high 2' wide and 4' deep.
Patrick J. Shoaf, Systems Engineer
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