ZATZ@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA (12/19/83)
From: Leslie Zatz <ZATZ@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA> I am planning on purchasing a 4 user TRS-80, Model 16B system running XENIX with a 15 Mbyte internal hard disk and a second 12 Mbyte external hard disk. Price is very reasonable. Will be used for text file searching - no math or number crunching. Has anyone had experience with such a system? Any problems? We will be ussing a program developed on a VAX with UNIX 4.1bsd. REPLIES TO ZATZ@SUMEX-AIM Thanks. -------
andree@uokvax.UUCP (12/20/83)
#R:sri-arpa:-1456100:uokvax:6100005:000:263 uokvax!andree Dec 18 18:16:00 1983 My experience with Xenix on the TRS-80 Mod 16 is that it is VERY SLOW. No other problems; and this doesn't seem to be a problem with Xenix in general. I would appreciate hearing your comments on this system, esp. in regards to the speed (or lack thereof). <mike
ab3%pucc-j@BRL-VGR.ARPA (12/21/83)
From: Darth Wombat <ab3%pucc-j@BRL-VGR.ARPA>
A couple of hours spent in a radio shack computer store in Chicago
a while back revealed the following:
1. It's very s---l---o---w. I wonder what speed that processor
is chugging alog at? (Salesperson did not know.)
2. It's not terribly robust; a C program consisting basically of
"while (1) fork();" blew it away. So did one that tried to open more
than the maximum number of files. Remember the "at" bug? It's there; so
are a lot of the other common bugs.
3. The &%$ keyboard is missing the symbols for either [] or {}; can't
remember which offhand; and | becomes backslash. I don't recall all the
details, but it'd probably take a while to learn how to type on this thing.
Additionally, the keyboard feels like a damp sponge.
4. I think I'll wait for Bell's machine.
Rich Kulawiec / Purdue
{ allegra, decvax, ihnp4, harpo, seismo, teklabs, ucbvax } !pur-ee!rskjpm@bnl.UUCP (John McNamee) (12/22/83)
A 1 megabyte 16B with the 12 meg drives can run fast enough in its intended application: COBOL business software. Xenix is a bit slow to do development under if more than one user is on (or you have more than a few processes going). If you treat it as a single user,multi task development system it can be tollerable given its price and the available service. John McNamee Arpa: jpm@BNL uucp: decvax!philabs!sbcs!bnl!jpm CompuServe: 70235,1345