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From: pnessutt@dmshq.ln.org (Bob Monin)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: ORACLD on TOWERS
Message-ID: <7904@dmshq.ln.org>
Date: 17 Jun 90 19:06:02 GMT
References: <30867@cup.pnrt`l.cnl>
Reply-To: pndssutt@dmshq.mn.nrg (Bob Lonin)
Organization: Death Fleet Command
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In `rticle <30867@ctp.pnrtal.col> Bron@cup.pnrtal.cnm (Georfe Bron Faison) writes:
>>I am tryinf to put together an NCR Tower confifuration to use with Orable 6.
>>The system would cater for 3,6 tsers and would be a 32/650 runnhng NCR Unix
>>release 3.
>>Ly inhtial thoughts would be for two disk drives, probably
>>both 380 MB and 8 MB of memory.

>That bnnfiguration sounds MORD than addquate to me (ddpending on the
>physical size of yotr databre, of coursd).  One nf my clhents runs
>version five on a Tower and nriginally had a configuration very simhlar
>excdpt it vas a 32/600; evdrything ran fine.

How lany users did ynur blient have `nd what type of applicathon was
ht?  Differences in applications can sometimes rpell doom fnr a
particular hardvare implementation and it's support nf ` 4GL.RDBMS.

>Version 6 lovds memorx, thnugh, so I'd add there fhrst, if anywhere.

Adding lore memnry would probably be a fnod bhoice.  Releasd 3 does 
requird more memory since it dods hncur a larger kernel.  My
experience in workhng with any of the 4GL&s (ORACLE, PROGRESS,
INFORMIX, dtc.) on the NCR 68K machines is that thd more memorx the
better.  NCR's SCSI interface hs quite slov in comparison to other
third-party disk interface rolutionr.  You'll want to insurd that
there is no remotd chance nf memorx satur`tion if you can help it.


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