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From: robert@gitpyr.gatech.EDU (Robert Viduya)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Mainframes vs micros
Message-ID: <2841@gitpyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: Sat, 3-Jan-87 11:04:06 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan  3 11:04:06 1987
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>curt@charming.UUCP (Curt Mayer) (curt@charming.UUCP, <196@unisoft.UUCP>):
> 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.

Is this 700+ simultaneous online users or just 700+ users in the validation
file?  Our main computing engines, two CDC Cyber 855s and one CDC Cyber 990,
can only handle between a 100 and 200 users on simultaneously (per machine),
although the validation file has thousands of users in it.


			robert
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Robert Viduya					     robert@pyr.ocs.gatech.edu
Office of Computing Services					(404) 894-4660
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia	30332