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From: gerry@zds-ux.UUCP (Gerry Gleason)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: IBM RISC System/6000  AS/400 (actually a diversion on the topic)
Message-ID: <205@zds-ux.UUCP>
Date: 2 Mar 90 16:53:22 GMT
References: <20714@cfctech.cfc.com> <1990Feb28.042949.21952@edm.uucp> <0093307E.0B7FBDC0@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU>
Reply-To: gerry@zds-ux.UUCP (Gerry Gleason)
Organization: Zenith Data Systems
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In article <0093307E.0B7FBDC0@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) writes:
>Should you look at DEC equipment (gasp), you find that a VAXstation 3100
>and a DECstation 3100 cost about the same, but the DECstation gives you
>anywhere from 2-3 times performance in any given situtation. Why should you
>stick with VAX VMS, even tho' you get more bang for the buck out of a 
>DEC station?

It doesn't make much sense to me, except as you said earlier:

>	Installed Software Base

But obviously it meets someone's needs, or they wouldn't be selling any
(I assume they are, or they won't be sold for long).  Of course, nobody
in their right mind would pick the VAXstation over the DECstation when
the majority of the project is new development, but who ever claimed that
most customers are in their right mind ;-).

Gerry Gleason