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From: nbladt@aut.autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: NCR's 4000 series to replace towers???
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Date: 15 Apr 91 10:09:20 GMT
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vaigl-j@mad.cis.ohio-state.edu (James Vaigl) writes:

>Someone said earlier that "the lower end sytem 3000's were nothing more
>than PC's"  Well, having worked at NCR, (no longer) I can say that in
and he is right. So, where is the difference between NCR and any other
company selling PC's for low-end (?) UNIX users ?

>most of the Unix benchmarks we ran, the 916 (a 16Mhz 386) beat a 700
>by *wide* margins on many tests.  There is not a tower made that can
>come close to the 3433 ( a 486 at 33Mhz ).
Now you can see how badly designed some expensive hardware can be !
I worked with a similar system as the tower several years ago and it
was much faster than our Tower 32/650.
I agree to the difference in speed, performance (and price !), we have a
Toshiba Laptop (5200/100, 20 Mhz) which is faster than the Tower. Not to
mention our no-name taiwanese 486/25 Mhz SCSI system !

>BTW, I just stumbled onto this newgroup.  Is it for NCR people, customers,
>the general public...?
I always thought, this group was for NCR people and customers which have
problems with their NCR systems (there are a lot: X.25, Xstation, etc.)

Norbert.
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