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From: littauer@uts.amdahl.com (Tom Littauer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re:  UN*X for a VAXcluster?
Message-ID: <19Bima13BL1010.irrw@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 15 Apr 89 16:19:13 GMT
References: <19099@adm.BRL.MIL> <509@visdc.UUCP>
Reply-To: littauer@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Tom Littauer)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
Lines: 26
Summary:Really big UNIX\(tm

In article <509@visdc.UUCP> jiii@visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III) writes:
>In article <19099@adm.BRL.MIL> (Michael J. Chinni, SMCAR-CCS-E) writes:
>>
>> I'm not so sure that he is looking for a system that can handle
>> several hundred users at once. If he is, then I think that he will
>> have a hard time finding anything.
>
>It is my understanding that ARIX is one of the only manufacturers with
>UNIX models that will handle hundreds of simultaneous users.

An Amdahl 5990-1400 with four engines, each ~60 VUPS (yes, its rubber
ruler time again - insert usual disclaimers) running SysV native is
handling this load for a number of our customers. Some of them are
banging on us to expand the 1024 device limit so they can add more
users/more disk (1.8 terabytes isn't enough).

I apologize for the blatant commercialism, but I couldn't stand seeing
all these little UNIX engines being called big anymore...
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