[mod.computers.workstations] Purchasing a Sun 3/280 for a timesharing system.

miner@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu.UUCP (01/27/87)

We are about to get a SunServer 3/280 workstaion to serve as the
central unix machine for our research lab.  It will have a dozen or
so serial terminals tied into it along with 4-5 IBM-PC and Amiga
Workstations using ethernet and NFS software.  An average number of
users at prime time would be about eight, they would be performing a
mix of tasks ranging from software development to text processing and
news reading.

Has anyone had experience using a SunServer?  Do they perform this
function well?  Can they handle the load?  The system we are looking
at as eight-MEG of memory and a 500 meg drive.  The one other system
wee are looking into is a Celerity 1200.  Please do not both to
suggest other machines, we have looked at many and already have
several Apollos, VAX's and Micro-Vaxs in the lab.

Thanks...
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