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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)
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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