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From: al@cs.strath.ac.uk (Alan Lorimer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Anyone out there using HP's DesignCenter Software ?
Message-ID: <1395@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk>
Date: 30 Mar 89 09:56:55 GMT
References: <550@msn017.misemi> <2148@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <7649@pyr.gatech.EDU> <634@msn017.misemi>
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In article <634@msn017.misemi> cad@msn017.misemi (_syscad_) writes:
>In article <7649@pyr.gatech.EDU>, is813cs@pyr.gatech.EDU (Cris Simpson) writes:
>> We're running DCS & Hilo on a 319 (Soon to be a 360).  We're looking to 
>> move beyond EGS on the 9936.  How are the ME?0 products? Would you 
>> buy them again? Would you choose them over other products on other
>> platforms? 
>
>	DCS and Hilo on a 319 ? You have my condolences. We were talked into 

Are you running DCS through the design system manager and
Windows/9000? This turns a relatively fast product into something
which is so hopelessly slow it is almost unusable.  We have DCS, DVI
and HILO (and PCDS) running on a 9000/350, and it's quite useable.
However the 350 is also the cluster server for a further 9 318s, which
can and do all run teamwork while some poor *** is trying to use DCS.
The system performance for the DCS site in these circumstances is
lousy.

Performance under DCS can be improved no end however simply by getting
rid of dsm and the windows 9000 interface and executing
/usr/hp74200/lib/dcs/dcs.exe directly. The performance improves no
end, and even gives acceptable results on a diskless 318.

Hope this helps,

Alan.
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