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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
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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