Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!world!apl From: apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: Performance of 80486 based machines running Unix Message-ID: Date: 22 Jun 91 01:21:30 GMT References: <1587@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <1991Jun20.233523.8184@leland.Stanford.EDU> <8003@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> Sender: apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence) Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Lines: 14 In-Reply-To: rbraun@spdcc.COM's message of 21 Jun 91 14: 56:20 GMT I am aware of (work with, on, and around) quite a number of 80386 and '486 systems running 10-40 character terminals with quite reasonable responsiveness. It is my gut feeling (somebody who knows what's going on could comment?) that running on the CONSOLE is always slower than running on a terminal, and that anyone using the console will slow down other people at terminals as well as their own jobs. This could be TOTAL imagination on my part-after all, I am constantly on different machines, with different numbers of users, different terminal boards , different applications- so the word subjective is really stretched here. Tony