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From: gah@blft1.UUCP (Gregg Houck SysOp)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: I NEED SPEED!
Message-ID: <31@blft1.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Aug-87 12:13:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: blft1.31
Posted: Thu Aug 20 12:13:49 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Aug-87 10:25:43 EDT
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Keywords: 386, 3b2, 3b5, vax

I have a client who wants to have a 14 user unix based system.
These guys are tax prepairers.  They want speed!  There will be
times that all 14 users will be active prepairing tax information.
So there will be HEAVY number crunching as well as High Volume
I/O.  Now, we have looked at using maybe a 386 machine under UNIX 
for one.  The question here is will a 386 handle the load.  Its
been praised over and over with its MIPS of 3-4 being stated.
Another machine we have considered is the AT&T 3b2/600 or the 3b5
series.  Or would be looking at something like the VAX series.

NOTE: When they say speed they are saying no delays over 5-7 seconds
      responding to a load request etc, Not run time.  They dont
      want their men sitting around waiting for an aplication to
      load.

Any Ideas out there???

Gregg Houck
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