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From: brr@abcom.ATT.COM (Rao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: 386/486, well configured: HOW MANY USERS?
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Date: 19 Feb 90 14:53:33 GMT
References: <1990Feb15.070638.1086@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> <1990Feb17.202330.12579@virtech.uucp>
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In article <1990Feb17.202330.12579@virtech.uucp>, cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
> In article <22232@abcom.ATT.COM> brr@abcom.ATT.COM (Rao) writes:
> 
> >		How many users can such a setup handle (efficiently)
> 
> In order to tell you how many users a system can support, one needs 
> to know what the users are going to be doing.
> 
> If you are talking primarily about a BBS style system and you get 
> an intelligent serial i/o card,  a 33MHZ system could support upwards

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	The user profiles:
		
			was planning to let 20 user accvounts access
			it, with say 10+ simultaneous accounts simultaneously
			working on it. Maybe 3 compiling C programs, 5 editing "vi",
			1 X window user, and 4 reading mail, etc.

			About a dozen users at a time (peak).

			The question again, 
			Can a 386/33 with 300+Mb  SCSI HD, and 16M + RAM
			hanbdle all that?

			-bindu rama rao