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In article <1092@ogcvax.UUCP> pase@ogcvax.UUCP (Douglas M. Pase) writes:
>In article <amdahl.3676> chongo@amdahl.UUCP (Landon Curt Noll) writes:
>>In article <537@rna.UUCP> dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) writes:
>> [...]
>>>	The real competition, I believe, is a PC AT (at 8-12 Mhz) running
>>>Xenix, which one can also find for about $5000. A PC AT running Xenix can also
>>>perform close to a VAX 11/750. No VM, though.
>>
>>I have seen a Symmetric out perform a PC AT/Xenix system.

	Can you be more specific ? I have seen a PC AT out run an 11/780. I
don't mean to be a PC fanatic, but perhaps someone with access to a Symmetric
could run a UNIX system benchmark suite and we could compare it to the PC AT and
other machines in their price class. I have such a benchmark suite which I would
gladly mail or post. This suite has been run on dozens of UNIX machines.
	I have trouble believing that a Symmetrics will out perform a 12Mhz PC
AT substantially (more than say 20%) except in non-typical or VM benchmarks.
I could believe that a PC AT would out perform a Symmetrics by as much as
30-50% on average while costing only $3000-4000. Let's run the benchmarks.
	BTW, the PC 386 machines will gain by 2-4X.

>
>Besides, who would ever accept a Xenix OS over 4.2BSD?  4.2BSD is MUCH nicer!

	I hear that someone is porting 4.3BSD to the PC AT and the cost will be
dirt cheap.

					Cheers,
					Dan Ts'o
					Dept. Neurobiology
					Rockefeller Univ.
					1230 York Ave.
					NY, NY 10021
					212-570-7671
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