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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Killer Micros and vectorized code
Message-ID: <2168@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 20 Mar 90 15:51:49 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <00933EBB.E972FCA0@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) writes:

| If shared resources are such wonderful critters, how come multiuser Macs
| aren't popular? Or '386es? You could conceivably hang multiple terminals
| from a '386 or '486 box, but I haven't heard of people rushing out to do so.

  You haven't been listening. A 386 box is about 3x the original VAX,
and will happily support 8 users with the response you would like, or 32
with response slightly better than the old VAX did under that load.
There are MANY of these systems sitting in offices running Xenix and
supporting 4-8 users.

  Because they're so checp people usually buy another rather than load
them to death, but a 386 will do reasonable well even with load average
up around six, providing you have enough memory.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
            "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me