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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!ficc!peter
- From: peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
- Subject: Re: IBM AS/400 is the world's slowest computer
- Message-ID: <id.TX9W.FC3@ferranti.com>
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <1992Dec21.141558.18626@rchland.ibm.com> <id.HD1W.X03@ferranti.com> <1992Dec26.003022.25532@bilver.uucp>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:39:53 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <1992Dec26.003022.25532@bilver.uucp> wbeebe@bilver.uucp (Bill Beebe) writes:
- > >Now I won't say I was happy with the performance on the 286, but the current
- > >systems with moderately old 386es are adequate, and our 486 box screams.
-
- > Maybe I *really* am dumber than a box of dirt, but why, in this day of
- > networking, would anyone do team development on a single box when it would
- > appear that team development on networked single-user boxes would be a lot
- > more efficient?
-
- Because team development on networked multiuser boxes is better than either.
- Not everyone needs 27 MIPS full time. You can do low-impact stuff on shared
- boxes, and have database and compile servers for big builds. Because a 386
- with an adequate bus underneath is is plenty fast for typical software
- development tasks, even multiuser. Because distributed computing means that
- some system you've never heard of can stop you dead. Because we don't have
- enough money to buy the sort of workstation we'd like for every developer,
- but we've got a perfectly adequate network of Xenix boxes already. Because
- the tools we need aren't available on UNIX, but are available on Xenix, and
- multiuser development on DOS is a joke. Lots of reasons.
-
- > Why do we still need multi-user boxes except to support obsolete business
- > practices?
-
- Because they work?
-
- Sure, we're moving over to workstations, but it's going to take time.
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