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Article #14172upgrade a 3/260
From: J. Philip Miller
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 1990 02:01
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 1990 02:01
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We have a Sun 3/260 which is used for e-mail, news, and SAS & S processing
by users who either telnet from PC's or connecttions via modems or our
university digital async switching system via an ALM-2. During prime time
there are frequently 8-12 users signed on at a time.
Originally I had planned to upgrade the CPU from the 68k to SPARC about
now, but I am having second thoughts. Since the cost of the upgrade is
approximately the same as purchasing a SparcStation, I wonder whether that
might make more sense. I realize that some of my software costs may be
greater, but having multiple machines might really make up for it in
performance.
I would be interested in anyone else's experience and/or opinions
about upgrading the 3/260.
J. Philip Miller, Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Box 8067
Washington University Medical School, St. Louis MO 63110
phil@wubios.WUstl.edu - Internet (314) 362-3617 phil@wubios.wustl - bitnet
uunet!wuarchive!wubios!phil-UUCP (314) 362-2693(FAX) C90562JM@WUVMD - bitnet
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!sun-spots-request From: phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: upgrade a 3/260 Keywords: Miscellaneous Message-ID: <5638@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 9 Mar 90 02:01:52 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 19 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 79, message 10