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From: bill@inebriae.UUCP (Bill Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: curious
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Date: 10 Oct 89 12:10:52 GMT
References: <27415@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
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In article <27415@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> royle@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (keenan royle) writes:
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>I am curious, is there anyone out there who has used RTs running AIX as a
>developement and/or production platform and is pleased.
>
>I used them for more than a year and hate the things.

Depending on the flavor (processor) you have, the RT is a very capable
development machine.  I used a ROMP for a while and was completely
underwhelmed.  Adding some memory helped, but relative to a 16MHz 80386,
it was pretty pokey.  An APC-125 upgrade made it quite acceptable with
the same work mix, but it ran into loading problems when I piled a heavy
duty load on it.

The ideal development system for a truly "industrial strength" load is
an APC-135.  On paper it's only 25% faster than a 125, but for a long
series of compiles and links it's better than twice as fast.  I can
get through a huge make in about seven hours that takes twelve on the
aforementioned 16MHz 80386.  Since there was no mention of $$$ comparison,
I'll leave it at that :-)
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