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From: pavlov@canisius.UUCP (Greg Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: DECstation 2100,3100 comments
Message-ID: <3227@canisius.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 91 04:24:49 GMT
References: <1991Feb20.114437@IASTATE.EDU>
Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo N.Y. 14208
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In article <1991Feb20.114437@IASTATE.EDU>, beveland@IASTATE.EDU (Eveland Bruce R) writes:
> 
> I'm interested in receiving any comments on DECstation 2100, 3100s.
> Such as reliablilty, inherent hardware problems, i/o speed, will they
> still be viable products in three years, etc.....

  Our 3100s have been fine reliability-wise:  our MTBF "history" is >2000 days.

  We haven't been thrilled with disk i/o, neither has anyone else that we
  know of, hoped that DEC would provide some sort of upgrade on that score,
  but no such luck.

  Re long-term viability:

    1. the rumor mills claim that the 2100/3100 set will be supplanted by new
       machine(s) Real Soon Now;

    2. unlike SUN or HP, DEC isn't much on offering upgrade kits.

  greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny
  pavlov@stewart.fstrf.org


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