Yup. My point was that I can understand if someone rejects a 750 in 1987 because it is fairly slow. I think home computers like the Amiga and Atari ST had at least that much raw CPU power?
But VAXen in general in 1987 weren't yet hopelessly slow, right?
I can understand if people didn't like VAXes for personal reasons. I had a pick of both a fast VAX and fast Sun workstations in 1987, the Suns were clear winners for me.
It was delivered back when the 750 was new, but we had lispms and PDP-10s and didn't care about stuff like vaxes.
I think it was already obsolete when RMS started using it, and had probably never been used over the years by anyone. Nowadays that kinds of thing is unremarkable, but back then at most places it would have been shocking.
But VAXen in general in 1987 weren't yet hopelessly slow, right?
I can understand if people didn't like VAXes for personal reasons. I had a pick of both a fast VAX and fast Sun workstations in 1987, the Suns were clear winners for me.