Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!amdahl!sbf10 From: sbf10@uts.amdahl.com (Samuel Fuller) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Single user vs. shared (was Re: Killer Micros and vectorized code) Message-ID: Date: 20 Mar 90 02:30:31 GMT References: <1990Mar18.023523.4034@ultra.com> <14496@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> Reply-To: sbf10@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Samuel Fuller) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 15 Another consideration in this discussion of single user workstations versus shared compute servers is memory. Which is better 16 Megabytes of memory on 100 workstations or 1.6 Gigabytes on one server allocated as needed to 100 X users? -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sam Fuller / Amdahl System Performance Architecture I speak for myself, from the brown hills of San Jose. UUCP: {ames,decwrl,uunet}!amdahl!sbf10 | USPS: 1250 E. Arques Ave (M/S 139) INTERNET: sbf10@amdahl.com | P.O. Box 3470 PHONE: (408) 746-8927 | Sunnyvale, CA 94088-3470 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------