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From: dougm@umrisca.isc.umr.edu (Doug Meyer)
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Subject: Setting up a Sparcstation lab.
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 12 Oct 89 15:27:28 GMT
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I am posting this for a friend. Please respond to the address given below.

We are considering setting up a small lab of SUN Sparcstations and were 
wondering if anyone else had had experiences (good or bad) with a similar
setup. Here is what we are considering:

 1.) ~10 Sparcstations, each with 8M of memory and a single 104M local disk
     for paging and temp space.
 2.) An additional Sparcstation with ~2G of SCSI disk space to act as a
     file server for 1.).

We would also appreciate knowing, from those that have similar installations,
what type of high capacity disks are being used. The SUN rep here is 
understandibly trying to sell us their drives, but we are seriously 
considering going to a third-party for them. 

Thanks,
Ralph Wilkerson (ralphw@gator.cs.umr.edu)
Department of Computer Science
University of Missouri - Rolla