That must be the 300 B superhive model CPU On Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 1:54 PM William Corcoran wrote: > I have a 3b2/300. Anytime you run a command that is compute bound, like > factoring a large prime number, the CPU buzzes! > > > > Bill Corcoran > > > > > > On Nov 27, 2022, at 9:52 AM, John P. Linderman wrote: > >  > > [EXTERNAL] > > > We were "gifted" a 3B2, as in "take this and use it!". I ran a "ps" > command in single user mode, and it took 20 seconds to run. > Our machine names were themed around bird names, so we christened the 3B2 > "junco". Our director said we had to get along, > so we renamed it "jay". But everyone knew what the J stood for. The 3B2 > served as a doorstop. > > On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 11:44 PM Phil Budne wrote: > >> Larry McVoy wrote: >> > I read the Wikipedia page on the 9000. It's sad that the 9000 >> > wasn't cancelled when they had better alternatives. >> >> In an oral history Bob Supnik described Ken Olsen couldn't get his >> head around the fact that the NVAX chip could equal the 9000: >> >> @2:59:45 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3tcCBHRIfU >> >> In part 2, Bob described how then DEC VP Gordon Bell having earlier >> predicted when the microprocessor performance curve would cross over >> minis and mainframes: >> >> @1:51:45 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3tcCBHRIfU >> >> He also talks about how the company couldn't command the bsame gross >> margins as it did in the VAX era. >> > > > THIS IS AN EXTERNAL EMAIL -- This email was sent from someone OUTSIDE of > the NSM Insurance Group email system. PLEASE USE CAUTION WHEN REVIEWING > THIS EMAIL. > >