EMC buys Data General

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Mon Aug 9 16:02:16 1999

At 03:47 PM 8/9/99 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> Yeah but did you explain that you can pile 30 users on that 3900 and it'll
>still perform about the same? That's not even possible with current Wintel
>hardware.

I'd have to disagree Dave, we've got some P133's acting as servers with
FreeBSD on them and they often get more than 30 users. The 3900 definitely
does a better job at _balancing_ 30 users since there is a lot more compute
power distributed throughout its I/O channels, which is the greatest
failing for PCs. However, if either the NGIO of Future I/O groups succeed
in displacing PCI off the motherboards of "Wintel" architectures that
advantage will go away.

--Chuck
Received on Mon Aug 09 1999 - 16:02:16 BST