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From: cowan@Udel-Relay.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re:  IBM vs VAX/unix
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Date: Fri, 23-Mar-84 09:03:12 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 23 09:03:12 1984
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From:      Ken Cowan <cowan@Udel-Relay.ARPA>

	Your comments about PC's vs. VAX/unix were interesting.  I
happen to agree with what you said.  Unfortunately, I'm afraid the
audience on this net understands the "use PC's for what they are
good for" philosophy.  Like you said, it is those administrators
who don't really use computers that need to learn more.

	This brings mind a similar situation.  Everyone agrees that
a VAX 11/780 just isn't as powerful as say an IBM 3081.  What DEC
seems to be doing is providing a very nicely integrated network
(VAXCluster) so they won't loose people (or as many) to other vendors.
A cluster permits people to transparently access files on a remote
machine, access them from a node who sole purpose is a file server (HSC50),
and access remote print and batch queues as if they were local (under VMS).
This clearly won't compete with mainframes running single jobs that require
huge resources, but it does permit dispersion of load with hassling the
user to do it.

	Is there already something out there for micros that does
analogous things?

						KC
						cowan@udel-relay.arpa