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From: Robin@turbo.RAY.COM (Robin Alston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel,comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: 386 machines and NFS ??
Message-ID: <210@turbo.RAY.COM>
Date: 19 Jan 88 16:39:23 GMT
Organization: Raytheon Company, Marlborough MA
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Keywords: unix sun nfs intel ada


With the low cost of 386 based machines with what looks like good performance
I would like to ask the world for some help on a system I am being asked
to configure. I want to support a community of 60 programmers. I would
like to have available certified ada. Is there a unix clone with nfs
or something similar out there that allows me to buy say 20 386 machines
(compaqs or similar) with some having big (200 mb+) disks and some having
IBM mainframe link hardware. The reason I ask is that it appears to me that
such a system would provide pretty good performance without the
reliance on a single central node that causes us a lot of grief at the moment
with system load problems. I appreciate that I could probably look at sun
stuff and maybe others but I get the impression that economically a suite
of 386 machiens would be cheaper (with some coming in for under $4000 with 
60 mb disks). Anyt body any thoughts on this. Is it a realistic idea?

	Need:
		UNIX with certified ada
		NFS or something to make the filesystem look like one big one.
		IBM comms and terminal emulators.

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