PDP11/55 sells on Ebay for 5K$ - was it really the fastest 11?

[woodelf]

Allison wrote:

>Sorry, while for those metric the 55 was a tad faster, for IO the 11/70 was 
>massively faster.  At that time to do large arrays of data you needed lots 
>of fast IO to disks as you could only works with part of an array at any 
>time due too addressing limitations of the PDP11.  
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Umm how about real HARD Numbers when talking speeds.

>When you measure systems, measure the system not just the cpu.
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Or like everbody does today clock speeds  ...  with a  .3 ns  clock  
how  fast is
REAL memory  again?
Ben alias woodelf