Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site crin.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!seismo!mcvax!vmucnam!crin!tombre From: tombre@crin.UUCP (Karl Tombre) Newsgroups: net.ai Subject: Re: Workstations vs Timeshare Message-ID: <134@crin.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Nov-85 10:28:09 EST Article-I.D.: crin.134 Posted: Sat Nov 9 10:28:09 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Nov-85 04:01:14 EST References: <3528@utah-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: tombre@crin.UUCP (Karl Tombre) Organization: C.R.I.N Lines: 20 In article <3528@utah-cs.UUCP> shebs@utah-cs.UUCP (Stanley Shebs) writes: > >>From: forbus@uiucdcsp.CS.UIUC.EDU >> >>Ahem. How many people who buy vax 780's give them to a single user? Worse > >Perhaps I'm spoiled; the utah-orion (11/750) load average generally only >goes over 1 when I'm running several compiles in the background, so it's >effectively a single-user machine. I used to .... Yes oh yes, you are spoiled! Our 750 has a load average of up to 15 sometimes when 10 to 15 people are working and somr nroffs and Lisps run in background. -- --- Karl Tombre @ CRIN (Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy) UUCP: ...!vmucnam!crin!tombre or ...!inria!crin!tombre COSAC: crin/tombre POST: Karl Tombre, CRIN, B.P. 239, 54506 VANDOEUVRE CEDEX, France