Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site baylor.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!neuro1!baylor!peter From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: the world is not all vaxen Message-ID: <516@baylor.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 07:26:20 EDT Article-I.D.: baylor.516 Posted: Fri Aug 23 07:26:20 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 13:35:30 EDT References: <767@brl-tgr.ARPA> <488@baylor.UUCP> <562@neuro1.UUCP> <508@baylor.UUCP> <564@neuro1.UUCP> Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 22 > >In the mini market. How many *micros* running UNIX would you trust with 35 > >users doing cs-project type stuff at once? > > Not many, but the real point is that you can buy a bunch of small computers > that run faster than a VAX for the price of a VAX. What is the difference > between 3 micros with 10 users each and one vax with 35 users? The cost and > perfomance (higher throughput with the 3 computers) are the main ones. Right, but what does that have to do with my original point that not every UNIX system in the world has sufficient power that you can throw it away in 'ls|foo|bar|zot|baz' every time you want a directory listing without feeling it. I think we've digressed just a mite, no? And I can think of few micros I'd trust with 10 users each. Certainly none in the personal-computer range. Maybe a few 20-grand-or-more supermicros like baylor or neuro1. Certainly not 7-grand-or-less machines like datafact, cathou, holmes, or (speaking in terms of what it would cost for an equivalent system today) hyd-ptd. -- Peter (Made in Australia) da Silva UUCP: ...!shell!neuro1!{hyd-ptd,baylor,datafac}!peter MCI: PDASILVA; CIS: 70216,1076