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From: gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: netnews eats 750s for lunch?
Message-ID: <116@l5.uucp>
Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 05:46:39 EDT
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In article <1090@ulysses.UUCP>, smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin) writes:
> I'm afraid you're grossly underestimating the CPU and disk throughput
> requirements to put netnews on a machine.  2 of our 5 outbound links, on
> a 750 used solely as a communications server (Ethernets, DMR-11s, laser
> printers, etc.), are at high speed.  Guess what -- one uuxqt running rnews
> and there are no cycles left.  If there are two, reading news will become
> unpleasant.  Those two plus a print job will totally kill the machine.

Put it on a 68020.  Vaxes are obsolete.

(or is that why you're using them as comm servers?)