mini-supers?

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From: Bill Ross
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1988 22:49

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I am looking for a machine to support a user community of 2000 students
in our Engineering School.  Currently we use a network of 11/750's and
microvaxen running 4.3.  What I am looking for should have most of these
features:

	o  Runs good 4.3 with Sun NFS, RPC

	o  Provides 30-50 Mips (11/780 = about 1 Mip)

	o  Supports 100+ concurrent users running real applications
	     (spice, ctrlc, macsyma, ada, troff, etc..)

	o  If a parallel machine, should provide a single process with
	     at least 5 Mips of cpu (no 68000 based parallel machines
	     with only 1 processor per process need apply)

	o  Price (without disks, tapes) of $250-$500k

What machines should I be looking at?  Some I know of are the Elxsi, Sequent,
Encore and Trace.  Does anyone have opinions on these machines?

Thanks for any ideas.

Bill Ross


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From: br@wucs1.UUCP (Bill Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: mini-supers?
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Date: 9 Feb 88 22:49:50 GMT
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis
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