Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: CMS Message-ID: <12235@ncoast.UUCP> Date: 15 Aug 88 22:42:42 GMT References: <347@spies.UUCP> <670025@hpclscu.HP.COM> <269@quintus.UUCP> <19709@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1988Aug12.061040.18720@utzoo.uucp> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 25 As quoted from <1988Aug12.061040.18720@utzoo.uucp> by henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer): +--------------- | In article <19709@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> mudd-j@pike.cis.ohio-state.edu (John R. Mudd) writes: | >>Have you ever used VM/CMS? ... | > | >... I *liked* VM/CMS from a user point-of-view. The shop I worked at had a | >IBM 3090 running VM/XA with 200+ users, and that system was FAST. Not like | >some of the delays I've had on some of these Unix-boxes. Of course, they're | >not as big as a 3090... | | Damn right they aren't. Unix on a big Amdahl really blasts along too. | Don't confuse hardware with software; of course a really big mainframe | is faster than an overgrown mini. +--------------- And, of course, if you stick those 200+ users and VM/CMS on a 4300-series processor, you start to long for the overgrown minis. I know from experience; Cleveland State's mainframe was usually far slower than ncoast, which is a decidedly *slow* system (386 systems are faster with the same load). ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, uunet!marque!ncoast!allbery DELPHI: ALLBERY For comp.sources.misc send mail to ncoast!sources-misc