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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU!werple.apana.org.au!zikzak.apana.org.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!usenet From: John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Vote on the Best OS Date: Tue, 15 Feb 94 00:06:17 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 21 Message-ID: <Jk4r2+J.dysonj@delphi.com> References: <2jb6ho$eag@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <10FEB199410231006@rover.uchicago.edu> <2jo71fINNsp@bonnie.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-To: J Wunsch <j@uriah.sax.de> J Wunsch <j@uriah.sax.de> writes: >> A few reasonable systems have had that for years, (at least RSX on >> PDP11-s has been able to do that for about 18 years.) Some sample >> code follows... > >Well, not that i hate RSX (i've made my first computer steps there)... > >> When I back up our PDP11, I put a tape in the tape drive and GO HOME, >> and in the morning I have a fresh backup tape. THIS IS SMART. > Oh, my!!! You know, I am replacing a RSX-11M+ machine with FreeBSD ant UofI in Champaign/Urbana. I actually have to debug code on that thing at times. When I wrote the code for the RSX-11 based machine, it seemed to be so much better (about 15years ago). I have an actual real-world benchmark that I demonstrated to them at UofI that takes 10mins on a 11/93 and takes about 5secs on a 486/66 running FreeBSD pre 1.0. John Dyson dyson@implode.root.com