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From: billb@amcad.UUCP (Bill Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Get a Wyse 80386 box w/SCO Xenix?
Keywords: wyse 3216 80386 xenix SCO
Message-ID: <140@amcad.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 88 08:13:27 GMT
References: <139@amcad.UUCP> <594@spdcc.COM>
Reply-To: billb@amcad.UUCP (Bill Burton)
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In article <594@spdcc.COM> dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes:
>Well, it sounds like a very nice system.  ...
>
>Are the Wyse comm boards "dumb" or "smart"?  
Smart.  According to the sales brochure, it sports a Z80B CPU with 4
Z80B's for UARTS (?).  Thoughput is claimed to be 19.2K baud through all
eight channels simultaneously.  If you *really* need speed it supports
three channels at 76.8K baud simultaneously.  

One other board I have looked into based on a recommendation, is made by
ARnet.  Their smart version appears comparable (a little faster?)
(according to the specs) to the Wyse board.  It uses an 80186 CPU and
has similar throughput.  At list price, it will cost about twice as much
as what I'll be paying locally for the Wyse board with Xenix drivers and
MS-DOS based diagnostics.  Even if the ARnet smart board is *much* better,
than the Wyse, the Wyse smart board (discount) is similarly priced to
the ARnet dumb board (list price).

>
>I only have experience with Q-Office (Q+) on a supermini, the Gould 9050,
>and Quadratron's reputation across the net in general.  Let's just say that 
>the 9050 could barely support 25 Q-Office users, and it wasn't the fault 
>of the CPU or the OS.  The product was SLOW, and would make a Cray resemble 
>an 8080.  

I was wondering what the net thought of this software.  The *only*
reason for using it on the '386 machine is that's what we are using now
on our Burroughs XE-550 (it's called CentrWORD on the XE and is slow
here too) and I wanted to allow the users to transition slowly to
another WP and not have to worry about converting scads of files all at
once not to mention the time it would take to learn the new SP.  It 
would also give me time to write a conversion program to go from Q-One 
(CentrWORD) to whatever.

-Bill

>-- 
>Steve Dyer
>dyer@harvard.harvard.edu
>dyer@spdcc.COM aka {ihnp4,harvard,husc6,linus,ima,bbn,m2c}!spdcc!dyer


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