• The VAX Unit of Performance, or VUP for short, is an obsolete measurement of computer performance used by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). 1 VUP was...
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    than the VAX-11/780. Within the Digital community the term VUP (VAX Unit of Performance) was the more common term, because MIPS do not compare well across...
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    The performance of the VAX-11/780 became known as 1 VAX Unit of Performance (or 1.0 VUPs). Other VAX models are rated as a multiple of the VAX-11/780's...
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  • Valledupar Airport, IATA code VUP Instructions per second, as "VAX Unit of Performance" The viewer/user/player role in transmedia storytelling, a communication...
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    NVAX offered about 25 VAX Unit of Performance (VUPs), while the NVAX+ was roughly 35 VUPs. This was only slightly less than the VAX 9000 mainframe's roughly...
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    databases VUP (VAX unit of performance) – also called VAX MIPS Whetstone – floating-point arithmetic performance, often reported in millions of Whetstone instructions...
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  • Role Clipping of vaccine Search for "vax" on Wikipedia. VAX Unit of Performance or VUP, an obsolete measurement of computer performance VAXELN, a real-time...
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  • The VAX 9000 is a discontinued family of mainframes developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) using custom ECL-based processors...
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    was also known as the VAX Unit of Performance or VUP.) This was chosen because the 11/780 was roughly equivalent in performance to an IBM System/370 model...
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    The VAX 8000 is a discontinued family of superminicomputers developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) using processors implementing...
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  • version of the R3000 running up to 40 MHz, the R3000A delivered a performance of 32 million instructions per second (MIPS), or VAX Unit of Performance (VUPs)...
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    introduction of the VAX 6000 Model 400 series, the older VAX 8000 was discontinued in favor of the VAX 6000, which offered slightly higher performance for half...
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    design new VAX/VMS systems of comparable performance to RISC-based Unix systems. After a number of failed attempts to design a faster VAX-compatible processor...
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    microcode-based) control unit in order to delegate sub-tasks that must be performed essentially asynchronously in parallel. For example, the VAX 9000 has a hardwired...
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  • Carlo method Multi-chip unit, a system that contains the processing units of the VAX 9000 minicomputer Multipoint control unit, a device used to bridge...
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    Symmetric multiprocessing (category Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes from August 2017)
    manner. In contrast, DECs first multi-processor VAX system, the VAX-11/782, was asymmetric, but later VAX multiprocessor systems were SMP. Early commercial...
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    another DEC product, the late-1970s VAX "supermini" systems that were designed to replace the PDP-11. Although a number of competitors had successfully competed...
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    The MicroVAX is a discontinued family of low-cost minicomputers developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). The first model, the...
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    frequency of 5 MHz, the 78032's integer performance is comparable to the original VAX-11/780 of 1977. The microprocessor can be paired with the MicroVAX 78132...
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    series of VAX implementations at lower price-points, the price-performance ratio of their systems continued to be eroded. By the later half of the 1980s...
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    A memory management unit (MMU), sometimes called paged memory management unit (PMMU), is a computer hardware unit that examines all references to memory...
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    DEC Alpha (section RISCy VAX)
    systems that combined one of their existing VAX one-chip solution and a RISC chip as a coprocessor used for high-performance needs. These studies suggested...
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  • 1992 in the form of the 92010 and aimed at the personal communicator market. Operating at 3.3V, its reported performance is up to 13.5 VAX MIPS. Initial...
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    contrast to a floating-point unit (FPU), which operates on floating point numbers. It is a fundamental building block of many types of computing circuits, including...
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  • I/O (PMIO) are two complementary methods of performing input/output (I/O) between the central processing unit (CPU) and peripheral devices in a computer...
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  • copyright of DJ Jubilee's song "Back That Ass Up". In 2021, Juvenile released "Vax That Thang Up", a remix whose lyrics encouraged vaccination for COVID-19...
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    integrated floating-point unit. When it was announced, the initial performance was originally published between 15 and 20 VAX MIPS, between 37,000 and...
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    Microarchitecture (category Central processing unit)
    are by no means limited to RISC designs. By 1986 the top-of-the-line VAX implementation (VAX 8800) was a heavily pipelined design, slightly predating...
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    noted a performance of 4 million instructions per second (MIPS), these reportedly being equivalent to DEC VAX-11/750 instructions. With the VAX-11/750...
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    Asymmetric multiprocessing (category Classes of computers)
    was attached to perform the operation. DEC's first multi-processor VAX system, the VAX-11/782, was an asymmetric dual-processor system; only the first processor...
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