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From: caanders@sactoh0.UUCP (Chris A. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Sequent S81 running Dynix
Message-ID: <723@sactoh0.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 89 01:36:02 GMT
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Organization: Sacramento Public Access, Ca. USA
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Hello,

My company is considering the purchase of a fairly large (to me,
anyway) computer in the near future.  One of the systems under 
consideration is a Sequent S81 running Dynix.  The model that
they've quoted has about 8 Gb of disk storage and two 386 processors.
They're claiming 8 mip performance.

Could anyone with any experience with Sequents in general and the 
S81 in particular give me some information about the company, the 
OS, and the hardware?

What I'm looking for is System V compatibilty, reliabilty, support(!),
general views on the company, etc.  Anything you can give me would
be nice. We're primarily a System V shop, with little or no BSD
experience, so portability is an issue as well.  We make use of large
data base files ( >250 Mb ), otherwise our applications are pretty 
straight forward.  We do plan to get into image processing later on,
so compatibility with the rest of the world is an issue as well.. 

Thanks in Advance!

Chris Anderson                    email: ...!pacbell!sactoh0!caanders
QMA, Inc.                         uucp:  ...!csusac!fenris