harris@imsvax.UUCP (Harris Reavin) (11/05/84)
(bug food)
This is the summary I promised on the responses I got on the CCI Power 6
and OFFICEPOWER. All I received were 2 replies from former
CCI employees who did not want to be identified. Their edited comments follow.
I personally have had no experience with CCI products.
If anyone has any further comments I would like to get them.
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comment #1
The cpu itself is superb. Unfortunately, the rest of the system
(expletive deleted). The terminal i/o is a total abomination. Unbelieveably
rude. The disk i/o is ok. There is no hardware floating point.
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comment #2
I consider OFFICEPOWER(tm) to be an excellent excellent integrated office
automation product. It may be that my perception of reality
is warped, but I don't understand why more business aren't
buying it (maybe it needs a three letter blue logo that starts
with 'I').
There is a Power 6/32 on site at OSG, Reston (I think it is the
second or third one manufactured). It IS fast, but be aware that
those brochures that you may have been receiving from CCI talking
about the 6/32 being 11 (?) times faster than a VAX are correct
only for that particular benchmark (Ackerman function). I.e. the
6/32 can do function calling a lot faster than the VAX. I think that
the average for several benchmarks is 6-7 times faster than a VAX,
with the worst benchmark running 4 times faster than a VAX.
In summary, I recommend OFFICEPOWER strongly, but only on a large machine
(like a VAX or Power 6/32).
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end of comments
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Harris Reavin
UUCP: {umcp-cs!eneevax || seismo!rlgvax!elsie}!imsvax!harrisjcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla) (03/17/85)
I am very interested in any information that anyone can come up with about CCI (Computer Consoles) and their supermini, the Power 6. The sort of thing that would be most valuable to me is to hear from actual customers, who have the machine installed an running now. I would like to know benchmark results, performance of the machine under load, hardware and software problems encountered, response in fixing said problems, actual delivery dates vs. promised dates, and what you are using the machine for. The experiences of people who have considered buying a Power 6 but did not would also be worthwhile. And finally, if anyone is running RTI Ingres on a Power 6, then I most definitely want to hear from you. Please reply to me personally, as soon as possible. Thanks ! Jody Patilla aplvax!osiris!jcp 301-955-6613 ps. It seems to me that someone else was asking about this a few weeks back. Sorry for duplication - if there is information already compiled somewhere, could it be forwarded to me ? -- jcpatilla "'Get stuffed !', the Harlequin replied ..."