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...

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...

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...

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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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...

databases VUP (VAX unit of performance) – also called VAX MIPS Whetstone – floating-point arithmetic performance, often reported in millions of Whetstone instructions...

The VAX 9000 is a discontinued family of mainframes developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) using custom ECL-based processors...

The MicroVAX is a discontinued family of low-cost minicomputers developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). The first model, the...

The VAX 8000 is a discontinued family of superminicomputers developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) using processors implementing...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

"Verification of the First Fault-tolerant VAX System", Digital Technical Journal, Volume 3, Number 1, Winter 1991. VAX Unit of Performance (VUP) - A measure of performance...

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...

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...

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...

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...

manner. In contrast, DECs first multi-processor VAX system, the VAX-11/782, was asymmetric, but later VAX multiprocessor systems were SMP. Early commercial...

A memory management unit (MMU), sometimes called paged memory management unit (PMMU), is a computer hardware unit that examines all memory references...

microcode-based) control unit in order to delegate sub-tasks that must be performed essentially asynchronously in parallel. For example, the VAX 9000 has an hardwired...

instruction has been a part of the VAX instruction set since its original 11/780 implementation in 1977. The 1999 standard of the C programming language...

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...

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...

never entirely migrated its PDP–11 customer base to the VAX. The primary reason was not performance, but the PDP–11's superior real-time responsiveness.[citation...

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...

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...

integrated floating-point unit. When it was announced, the initial performance was originally published between 15 and 20 VAX MIPS, between 37,000 and...

In the domain of central processing unit (CPU) design, hazards are problems with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction...