[Simh] VUPs?

[Norman Lastovica]

in at least one case that I can think of, a VAX was purposefully slowed
down in the microcode.  that is, at least, the rumor while I worked there.
I'll bet Bob Supnik has some insight and stories along these lines.

Care to share Bob?

> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Bob Armstrong
> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 7:54 AM
> To: simh at trailing-edge.com
> Subject: Re: [Simh] VUPs?
> 
> > Tim Shoppa wrote:
> >I don't think DEC ever officially released their VUP benchmark suite to
the
> wide world.
> >
> >Digital Review, back in the days, had their own VUP test suite that gave
> similar
> >but not identical numbers. Many put much more weight on the Digital
Review
> >benchmarks because they were published.
> 
>   There's also the possibility that DEC marketing fudged the VUPs numbers
a
> little bit to ensure that the machines ended up with the right
> cost/performance ratios, and that's why nobody else was ever able to
> duplicate them exactly.
> 
>   I don't have any evidence that Marketing actually did, but the
temptation
> must have been there.
> 
> Bob
> 
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