ULTRIX

[tierney at fortune.UUCP]

I have a question about ULTRIX:

	(Background) I went to Northeastern U. in Boston,
	and we had one VAX running VMS with everything 
	you can fit into the box (mostly memory and terminal 
	boards).  Near the end of the quarter, it was not 
	unusual to find > 120 people logged on simultaneously!

	I once asked whether UNIX would not be a better OS,
	and I received the following answer:

	UNIX may be a nice OS, but it is not as efficient
	as VMS for the VAX.  In other words, I can run 
	120 users on my VAX under VMS and many fewer under
	UNIX.

MY QUESTION:

	ULTRIX was developed for VAXen by the VMS wizards at DEC.
	So how does the efficiency of VAX/ULTRIX compare to
	VAX/VMS?

	Anyone care to conjecture?  



Charlie Tierney
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