Xref: utzoo comp.unix.xenix.sco:516 comp.unix.misc:360 comp.unix.sysv386:1315 comp.unix.internals:689 comp.unix.questions:26288 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!umich!sharkey!wyn386!wybbs!sleepy From: sleepy@wybbs.mi.org (Mike Faber) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Summary of Request for Comparison of Altos and NCR Keywords: summary Altos NCR comparison Message-ID: <505@wybbs.mi.org> Date: 17 Oct 90 18:23:24 GMT References: <11@ACT.UUCP> Reply-To: sleepy@wybbs.UUCP (Mike Faber) Organization: Consultants Connection, Jenison MI Lines: 17 In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: Comments about 80x86 and 680x0 chips here... > >We've got a 68000-based (yes, the old one) UNIX box that blows our 386 >boxes out of the water. For multiuser use the surrounding hardware is >at least as important as the CPU. >-- >Peter da Silva. `-_-' Thank you. I've been saying (to my boss mostly) that the disk speed and quantity are the REAL deciding factors in a resonably designed system. In my opinion, the only thing you need a CPU for in a typical DBMS computer is to direct traffic, and make an occasional computation here and there. -- Michael Faber sleepy@wybbs.UUCP