Performance comparisons of CDC-6600 and VAX 11/780
Melvan Scott, W.H. Vandevender, Karen H. Haskell, E.L. Walton · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 1982
The Control Data Corporation 6600, using the NOS 1.4 Level 518 operating system, and The Digital Equipment Corporation VAX 11/780, using the VMS operating system, are compared in several different environments. These include megaflop computations, batch, compilation of FORTRAN programs, time-sharing, I/O tests, and accuracy and range of the intrinsic functions.