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From: billb@amcad.UUCP (Bill Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Get a Wyse 80386 box w/SCO Xenix?
Keywords: wyse 3216 80386 xenix SCO
Message-ID: <139@amcad.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 88 23:18:47 GMT
Reply-To: billb@amcad.UUCP (Bill Burton)
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Organization: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Mass.
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We are considering purchase of the following system:

Hardware:
o   Wyse 3216 with 4meg static column RAM
o   an 80mb drive 
o   a Wyse WY-995 8 port card
o   Cipher 60meg tape drive
o   Terminals:  Convergent Technologies PT-1500 in ROM emulation
    mode.  (already have these)

Software:
o   SCO Xenix 386 w/devel set and text package
o   SCO Multi-view window interface
o   VP/ix for 1-2 users
o   Quadratron Q-1 Word processing (required until WordPerfect for
    Unix becomes availale :-) )
o   PROGRESS database (required)

The machine would be used mostly for word processing by 4-6 people and
occasionally 1-2 people would run the PROGRESS database program.  Two
printers and 1-2 modems will be attached. 

Has anyone had experience with a similar system?

Any advice regarding alternative controller/disk combinations and
multiport boards would be helpful.  Cost and serviceability are 
considerations. 

In the future we might add another 80mb drive, 8-port board, and 2meg to
support additional users.  Will the response time be degraded
significantly? 

Thanks in advance,
Bill

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	Name:		William D. Burton
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