Xref: utzoo comp.arch:4680 comp.databases:977 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!amdcad!amdahl!chuck 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 Lines: 12 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