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From: system@aurum.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson))
Subject: Re: Vax 9000 or Apollo DN10000 sites ?
Message-ID: <1991May21.200057.6804@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
Followup-To: comp.sys.hp
Sender: system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson))
Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
References: <1339@theseas.ntua.gr>
Date: Tue, 21 May 1991 20:00:57 GMT

In article <1339@theseas.ntua.gr> zvr@ntua.gr writes:
>    We are evaluating alternatives for a complete upgrade of our main
>computer facility.  Are there any sites that have either:
>(a) a Vax 9000 (preferably 410 or 310), or
>(b) a ring of Apollos DN 10000 (3 or 4) ?

To get a good view of the (lack of) future for the DN10000, see the
USENET letter now available for signatures in comp.sys.apollo.
Having one DN10000 is enough trouble, 3 or 4 would put the lucky (:-))
sysadmin into the loony bin (though maybe they work properly on a Token
Ring - we have Ethernet). The system most departments I know of are
looking at the new 720/730 - for those already accustomed to HP-UX,
should be a simple upgrade; for those of us from BSD land, a definite
step down in software portability, up in cpu power.

Mike (DN10000/BSD sysadmin).
-- 
Mike Peterson, System Administrator, U/Toronto Department of Chemistry
E-mail: system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
Tel: (416) 978-7094                  Fax: (416) 978-8775