Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!uwmcsd1!marque!gryphon!richard 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 Lines: 47 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... -- Richard J. Sexton INTERNET: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM UUCP: {hplabs!hp-sdd, sdcsvax, ihnp4, nosc}!crash!gryphon!richard "It's too dark to put the keys in my ignition..."