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From: thompson@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Steve Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: DEC station 3100
Keywords: DEC Ethernet Multiple logins
Message-ID: <7561@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 89 17:05:11 GMT
References: <272@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: thompson@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Steve Thompson)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <272@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> ramesh@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (nallepilli.s.ramesh) writes:
>
>I have a basic question about the DEC station 3100 running Ultrix.
>Is it possible to have multiple users logged in to the DEC 3100 via 
>the ethernet?  We are planning to use a bunch of PCs in our lab on a
>ethernet hooked up to the DEc station 3100.  We need remote login 
>capability.  Two of the sales reps gave me conflicting information!
>One said that two users can be simultaneously logged in, the other said
>that only one (on the console ) can be logged in.  Can anybody shed some light?
>We are new to the networking world, and are comparing the suitability of 
>DEC workstation vs. the Sun workstation.

We have two of these, newly delivered. It is most definitely possible to
have multiple users logged in. However, the machine comes with a 2 user
license, so unless you buy an upgrade (we have the 8-user upgrade for
an extra $300), you're limited to two users. It doesn't seem to count
root as one of these; this morning we had two people logged in over
the ethernet, and I successfully logged in as root on the console. The
2 user license doesn't limit you to one on the console and one remote;
it seems to be a total of two, where-ever they may come from.

As regards the DS3100 vs Sun, all I can say here is that I recently
compared the performance of my main application (a floating-point
intensive code that runs for several hours) between the DS3100 and
a Sun 4/110. The DS3100 was 3.34 times faster. Don't know about
the new Sun stopgap machine.

Steve