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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Subject: Re: Xenix considered harmful (was Re: SCO support - a success story)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.181148.8221@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 18:11:48 GMT
- References: <1501@mgse.UUCP> <1992Sep04.055321.4375@edsi.plexus.COM> <1193@consult.UUCP> <1502@mgse.UUCP>
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- Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
- Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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- In article <1502@mgse.UUCP>, marks@mgse.UUCP (Mark Seiffert) writes:
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- | 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.
-
- How can you afford to do this? We find that it's cheaper to give
- everyone a system, a fast system, than to have developers waiting for
- the machine to do things. The way you share stuff is NFS, right?
-
- I know what a 486/50 is like with two compiles running and then trying
- to read news with the X window manager running on the same machine. And
- trying to edit when the keystrokes and cursor action is separated by
- long lags... unless you are using grad students or some other less than
- minimum wage labor, I can't see how you get any work out.
-
- Note that I would not say this about things like news, mail, data
- entry, etc, which don't use a lot of CPU on the average, but software
- development is a real load on the disk and CPU at times.
- --
- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
-