Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sunybcs!canisius!elgie From: elgie@canisius.UUCP (Bill Elgie) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: *big iron* Message-ID: <2493@canisius.UUCP> Date: 26 Sep 89 14:30:56 GMT References: <21962@cup.portal.com> <1989Sep12.031453.22947@wolves.uucp> <22488@cup.portal.com> Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo N.Y. 14208 Lines: 21 In article <22488@cup.portal.com>, cliffhanger@cup.portal.com (Cliff C Heyer) writes: > > BUT my point is that the alleged "leaders" in the industry are not even > keeping up with what the small companies are doing. For example, the > Amiga doing 700-900KB/s "real" disk I/O....... THEN > we have the $30,000 MIPS M120/5 only doing 600KB/sec, ....... > Actually, I believe that Amiga is somewhat bigger than MIPS (tho the latter should catch up...). The "$30,000 MIPS M/120" is 1) more than a year old and slated for an up- grade, and 2) includes quite a bit of memory, a disk, ethernet, serial ports, etc, as well as a very well-done UNIX and its associated software, with an unlimited user license. It runs considerably faster than anything I have seen from Amiga. We support a good-sized database application on one of these systems, in spite of the limited "600KB/sec" transfer rate: that measure is not very mean- ingful and inaccurate in any case. greg pavlov (under borrowed account), fstrf, amherst, ny