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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How many terminals?
Message-ID: <2530@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 10 Dec 87 04:01:31 GMT
References: <984@russell.STANFORD.EDU> <636@aucs.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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Summary: hard question

In article <636@aucs.UUCP> 870646c@aucs.UUCP (barry comer) writes:
>I have a question for the Amiga people, if one was to run unix or a look alike 
>on the Amiga, how many terminals would you be able to run off it(or is there
>a limit) before performance is lowered to the point of no return. I know
>of course that this depends on what you are doing, and if you are using a hard
>disk or not(what an evil thought, using unix from a floppy disk).
>This is just a general question, but I am sure that I am not the only one   
>asking it.

/* Smart ass answer */

1 more that your precious Mega ST thing, Barry.

/* real answer */

Well, lessee, how you gonna hook up these terminals ? On a 1000 you only have
1 serial port, so thats right out.

On a 2000 you could plug in AT smart 8 port serial cards and connect
them to terminals. 

But now who is to say what the "point of no return" is ? The 286 Xenix
box that is gryphon.cts.com has four lines going into it and sometimes
bogs down to 15-20 seconds response time. Other times it is quite zippy.

Probably a rough answer would be to start opening a bunch of windows,
and start something like

10: dir
20: goto 10

in each window, and decide for yourself at what point performence
degrades to the point where YOU think it is intolerable.

Of course, a 2000 with a 68020, 8 megs, and a 35 ms. hard disk with
2 eight port cards is probably not unreasonable. 

As long as you dont expect your concurrent ray-trace to finish quickly...



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