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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How many terminals?
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Date: Tue, 8-Dec-87 01:04:49 EST
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: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.

	As far as UNIX is concerned, the major problem is (a) memory and (b)
IO bandwidth.  (a) memory isn't too much of a problem... say use an Amiga
with 8Megs and a 68020 (and a MMU of course).   This leaves IO bandwidth.

	To be at all usefull, you would want two harddrives and separate
DMA channels for each.  Use one harddrive for swap (make it a 40Meg HD).
The more (or larger) HD's the merrier!

	That would be roughly equivalent to, say, a VAX 750 in terms of
performance.

				-Matt