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From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP9000 S500 Support (Was: hp9000 ser. 500 hpux)
Message-ID: <682@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 88 20:46:31 GMT
References: <1654@mhres.mh.nl> <1080002@hpfcmr.HP.COM>
Reply-To: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <1080002@hpfcmr.HP.COM> chan@hpfcmr.HP.COM (Chan Benson) writes:
>> We don't even think an 800 series can compete with a 500 with 2 or 
>> 3 computers in terms of multi-user capablility.  
>
>I assume you mean 2 or 3 cpus.
Yes, that was a typo. Sorry!
>                                       I don't know what your applications
>are, but having gone from a 500 to an 840 here at work, I have to
>say that the 840 blows the doors off a 500 for multi-user central system.
Our applications are science-oriented computing (not only number crunching
but also text formatting with nroff and TeX and lots of I/O-oriented tasks).
A week ago bought a second, used 540 (very cheap ....) and added its FOCUS II
CPU and 1 MB of FOCUS RAM to our existing 2 CPU/4 MB RAM 540 to speed it up even
further.  We had noticed some problems with 10 people logged in.  Since
we haven't got 'monitor' for HP-UX 5.21 so we have not been able to analyze
our new configuration yet.

By the way, we plan to use our new 540 cage as an extra I/O cage thus saving
some $4500...

-Bo

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