Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!ukma!dftsrv!mimsy!mojo!SYSMGR@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Using VAXStation 2000 as X-terminal Message-ID: <0093FC0A.183893E0@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> Date: 15 Nov 90 18:56:26 GMT References: Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (The News System) Reply-To: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) Distribution: comp Organization: The U. of MD, CP, CAD lab Lines: 18 In article , perf@efd.lth.se (Per Foreby) writes: >We have 20 VAXstn 2000 which are never used because our Sun's are much >faster. Our DEC salesman came up with an idea: Buy som new DECstation >2100's, put 24 Mb in each of them, and use the old 2000's as >X-terminals. Euh, is that 2100? I'd edge for the 3100s, just on a matter of principle OR look at DECstation 5000s or 5100s as well. Actually, you could just as easily use your VAXstation 2000s as X-terminals *now* with your Suns (thereby dragging them to their knees ;-). >In this way, by purchasing 20 DECstation 2100, we could get 40 fast >workstations. It seems to work OK; the Setup which is being run by the EE people have 3 Sparcstation 1+ machines distributing a load 'twixt roughly 12-14 VAXstation 2000s, but the VAXstation 2K isn't all that hot on mean time between failures.