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From: ewing-martin@cs.yale.edu (Martin Ewing)
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Subject: Re: A/UX on ci
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Date: 10 Dec 90 21:53:50 GMT
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In article <10780.27639eba@ul.ie>, leonardm@ul.ie writes:
|> Any point in trying to run AUX on anything less than an fx? I'd like to save
|> money by using a ci or cx. Anybody try it? 
|> 
|> +Martin+

I'd say a IIci is fine; I have one.  Desktop/finder operations are rather
slow compared with MacOS, but, once launched, applications run pretty well.
Occasionally there are longish delays (e.g., when logging in or out) that
have no obvious purpose, but these are only for a few seconds.  Overall,
I have no problem choosing A/UX over MacOS on the IIci, because of the
better networking and all those other Unix features.

I benchmarked my IIci under A/UX against a SparcStation 1.  The IIci is about
1/5 of the Sparc on Dhrystones (integer MIPS), and 1/3 on Linpack Mflop/s.
But the Sparc doesn't run Word or Excel :-)

Martin Ewing
Yale University
Ewing@Yale.edu