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From: curt@dtix.dt.navy.mil (Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Do you like your Sequent System?
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Date: 3 May 90 20:10:10 GMT
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Reply-To: curt@dtix.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch)
Organization: David Taylor Research Center, Bethesda, MD
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We are considering purchasing a Sequent S27 system to replace
3 Vax 11/780's, 2 Vax 11/750's, and 2 ISI V.20 systems.

I'd like to hear opinions from Sequent owners about how they
like their system, how well they perform, what type of
problems you have had (with hardware, software, support
from Sequent, etc.).

Do any of you have any suggestions about other brands of
equipment we should look into?  Nothing I've seen so far
gives both the price performance that Sequent can offer
and its ability to scale up from a small to large system
without replacing the whole computer.

Also, can any of you give some estimations on how large of
a Sequent system we will need?  (How large is yours and
how many users can use it at once.) 

We would like to run with a peek load of 60-100 concurrent
users doing simple text editing, e-mail, and news reading.
Most of these would be connecting through telnet connections.

Thanks for any words of wisdom you can give me,

Curt Welch
curt@dtix.dt.navy.mil
David Taylor Research Center (A Navy Lab)
Bethesda, MD
(301) 227-1428