Would you take 2 megs or a FPA?

[Margaret E. Craft]

We have a VAX 780 with 2 megs of memory, NO FPA,
supporting about 400 users (average daytime usage of 20 users).
Also on the machine:  2 RM05's, an RP06, 2 TU77's, 2 ABLE DH's,
2 DZ's, an LH/DH to arpanet, a commboard to IBM-land, ...

Given a fixed amount of money, will be improve performance
better by buying 2 more megs of memory or by buying a
Floating Point Accelerator?  

I hear that UNIX needs an FPA, but need a hard reason WHY to
convince management that it's useful even though we have a minimal
amount of number crunching...

please send replies to ...!linus!peg.

thanks - peggy craft