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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
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Subject: Re: Killer Micros and vectorized code
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Date: 20 Mar 90 22:04:28 GMT
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In article <2168@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>, davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
>  .............. 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.
>
Sure. There are many more people who don't run Xenix and are running
Novell with Ethernet or Token Ring. Or even Banyon Vines, for that matte

			Doug