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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
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Subject: Re: Setting up a Sparcstation lab.
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Date: 23 Oct 89 15:16:26 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 172, message 9 of 19

In article <2276@brazos.Rice.edu> dougm@umrisca.isc.umr.edu (Doug Meyer) writes:
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|I am posting this for a friend. Please respond to the address given below.
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|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:
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| 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.).
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|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. 

We have three SS-1's in house, and 2 SS-370's in house. I would definitely
recommend the 370 as the server for your SS-1's. I have a Xylogics 753 in
the 370 with a CDC sabre connected to it. It works great.  I am kind of
partial to the CDC's, I am sure you will get other opinions.

Russ Poffenberger               DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com
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