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- From: marks@mgse.UUCP (Mark Seiffert)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Subject: Re: Xenix considered harmful (was Re: SCO support - a success story)
- Message-ID: <1502@mgse.UUCP>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 16:44:03 GMT
- References: <1501@mgse.UUCP> <1992Sep04.055321.4375@edsi.plexus.COM> <1193@consult.UUCP>
- Organization: mgse
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- In article <1193@consult.UUCP> bob@consult.UUCP (Bob Willey CDP ) writes:
- |In article <1992Sep04.055321.4375@edsi.plexus.COM> gmeiers@edsi.plexus.COM (Garrett Meiers) writes:
- |>>Not my world. Xenix is fine, especially when I am installing a
- |>>system were there will only be eight or less terminals, typically
- |>
- |>Who said Xenix is limited to 'eight or less' terminals??? The
- |>Xenix system I'm on now has 13 terminals attached plus the
- |>console. 3 of those terminals are dial-up. And we've had them
- |>all logged in at once... Unless I'm nuts. Or in a frantic
- |>dream...???
-
- To Garrett Meiers:
- If you will re-read my post you will notice that I was saying that
- there is no need to install SCO Unix when the majority of my customers
- are using less than 8 terminals. MOST of them are just using the console.
- There is a differance between saying that "when I am installing" and "I
- can only install".
-
- |
- |No dream. We have several sites in the 20-25 terminal range under
- |SCO Xenix running just fine. We have one site running on an IBC XLA
- |box (proprietary internals) running SCO Xenix with 55 terminals and
- |running apps like Informix. And the system has been very stable.
- |
- |So there is no 8 terminal limit... When making a decision it requires
- |looking at the overall systems, # of terminals, # of active terminals,
- |# of printers, # of graphics printers, types of applications, typical
- |mix of applications, and any other considerations just as dial-ins,
- |faxmodems and the like.
-
- Our development system averages 40 users logged in at a time with 120+
- gettys running. This is one a Intel 486/30 and it runs dog slow. We have
- been told that when Xenix has a large number of users (or processes) that
- Xenix will run slow and SCO UNIX will run faster in a similiar situation.
- So we will be switching to Unix for our development system as soon as we
- get as much software upgraded to Unix as we can.
-
- Mark Seiffert
-
- |
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