Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.10426
Posted: Fri May  3 19:33:48 1985
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As for the IRS buying a whole bunch of Zilogs for OA:

  I work at the IRS national office, and we have a total of 4 Zilog model
31 boxes, running the C-shell.  They are nice boxes, execept when trying
to use them for real-time processing, especially word processing.  If you
have more than two people useing XED(tm) at the same time, the 'space-
heater' drasticly slows down, and this does not seem to be because of
disk access.  We have tried configurating our boxed different ways to re-
duce the disk access time, but it has not helped much.  Plus, you really
have to have a hard-core C and UNIX hacker to keep the things running.  It
has been quite a struggle all along, but we do use the Zilog's in many
different OA and data processing applications.  There are 4 in my office,
but thrughout the building, there are at least a dozen or so.  We are working
on networking them together, and have had some success with uucp and mmdf,
however, the speed of the system presents problems there as well.

								JonAlbers
							(JALBERS@SIMTEL20)



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