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From: mpierce@ewu.UUCP (Mathew Pierce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Why A3000UX over DecStation?
Message-ID: <1507@ewu.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 91 00:55:53 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Organization: Eastern Washington Univ. Cheney WA
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The network here at EWU has a serious problem: The old Sun 386i's
can't keep up as servers, and the net gets seriously bogged down
when the graphics people, autocad people, and C programming 
people all get on at the same time.  It gets to the point where
no new people can log on, even though there are machines available,
due to the automounter on the server transforming into a babbling
idiot.

We have been testing a DEC 2100 for the past month, and the 
administrative people seem to like it, and are talking about
getting one for a server.

My question is: Can an Amiga 3000UX machine beat the DEC as a 
server?  The instructor who originally got the lab going, a former
owner of an Amiga which got stolen, is really set upon SPARC as
workstations, and either the DEC or a SPARC as the server.  I
think that an A3000UX with lots of diskspace, would work great.

If anyone has any numbers, like datatransfer rates or such could 
you either email me or post them here?

Thanks,

Matt Pierce