[rescue] VAXstation questions

[Dave McGuire]

On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 04:47 PM, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
>>> It's what I was taught assembly with at RIT...  although I learned it
>>> via a VAX emulator on Sun hardware (Sun3 era stuff).
>
>>    That is *crazy*...pretty much all VAXen are a fair bit faster than
>> pretty much all Sun3s.  Weird.
>
> Well, the CS department was pretty much all sun machines, and that's 
> what
> they taught their course on.  They wouldn't have had enough VAXen to
> go around.

   Oh, hmm...that makes sense I suppose.  I hadn't thought about it in 
the context of preexisting systems.

       -Dave

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