Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcnc!gatech!gitpyr!rodney From: rodney@gitpyr.gatech.EDU (Rodney Ricks) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Mainframes vs micros Message-ID: <2839@gitpyr.gatech.EDU> Date: Sat, 3-Jan-87 05:22:51 EST Article-I.D.: gitpyr.2839 Posted: Sat Jan 3 05:22:51 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Jan-87 09:35:55 EST References: <653@imsvax.UUCP> <196@unisoft.UUCP> Reply-To: rodney@gitpyr.UUCP (Rodney Ricks) Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. Lines: 37 Summary: What Cyber are you talking about? In article <196@unisoft.UUCP> curt@charming.UUCP (Curt Mayer) writes: >Give me a break. I have never seen a CDC cyber with more than 05% load. >This is in a university environment with 700+ users, no less. > What? Are you saying that you are using a Cyber system that can handle 700+ users at a time? My experience with a Cyber is with a machine that dies a horrible, crawling death when 125 users get on it. With this number of users, the machine would slow down to the point of compiling programs at the speed of a standard IBM PC,... with floppies! That Cyber was replaced with a newer Cyber system about a year ago. Since I haven't done much work on it lately (I avoid it. Almost everybody avoids it!), I don't know how much faster it is. By the way, something just came to mind about why your Cyber might be so much faster than our old Cyber. I think our Cyber had (only) two CPU's in it. How many does yours have? It does seem kind of unfair, comparing multi-CPU mainframes with single-CPU micros and saying "Look at how much faster the mainframes are!". Are there any other students out there who have experienced just how slow a Cyber can be (come on Georgia Tech students, speak up!)? > > curt Disclaimer: The above information is supplied without warranty, either expressed or implied, about its merchantability, fitness, or reliability for any purpose. To put it concisely, B E L I E V E I T O R N O T ! ! ! Rodney Ricks UUCP: ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!rodney or : !gatech!gt-oscar!rodney Mail: 4265 Hidden Valley Dr. College Park, Ga. 30349