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From: chuck@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Charles Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.databases
Subject: Re: Unix machines for large databases
Message-ID: <31026@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 7 May 88 14:16:59 GMT
References: <428@cmx.npac.syr.edu> <41647UH2@PSUVM>
Reply-To: chuck@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Charles Simmons)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale  CA
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In article <41647UH2@PSUVM> UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes:
>In article <428@cmx.npac.syr.edu>, billo@cmx.npac.syr.edu (Bill O) says:
>>
>>Help! By Friday we need to know if there is a Unix-based box that
>>can work as a very high-performance data-base server.  Yes, there are a
>
>Sure there is.  You can run Unix on a Cray.

Unless you have a real big need for the vector processor of the Cray,
an Amdahl machine may well provide better performance at a lower cost.

-- Cs