info-3b2@lamc (Info-3b2 Mailing List) (08/21/88)
Info-3b2 Digest, Number 7 Friday, August 19th 1988 Today's Topics: TZ FIX 3B2-500s ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hoptoad!cs.utexas.edu!astro.as.utexas.edu!bigtex!juniper!sooner!dewey Date: Thu, 11 Aug 88 21:25:52 CDT Subject: TZ FIX A few months ago, someone posted a fix for the problem associated with /etc/TIMEZONE not working correctly. I seem to remember that it was something like, you can't have tabs or '#' chars as the first character in the lines or the line TZ=CDT6CST has to be in the first X number of lines. If anyone has this posting or knows what I'm talking about, I'd appreciate hearing about it. Dewey Coffman Austin, Texas. UUCP: cs.utexas.edu!juniper!dewey, sooner!dewey ------------------------------ Subject: 3B2-500s Date: 16 Aug 88 15:15:38 CDT (Tue) From: sundc!sun!bradley!john@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (John Lengeling) I am thinking about replacing a 310 with a 500, and I was wondering how a 3B2/500 compares to a 310. How much of a performance improvement is a 500 over a 310? What kind of performance increase can be achieved with adding a: VCACHE 22Mhz system board multiple processors The 310 that I am using is currently 13 simultanious users running large applications (>350K executables) The main problem with the machine is that it needs more memory... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Lengeling UUCP: {cepu,att,uiucdcs,noao}!bradley!john Bradley University ARPA: cepu!bradley!john@seas.ucla.edu Distributed Systems ATTMAIL: attmail!bradley!john Bradley Hall Room 6F PHONE: (309) 677-2337 Peoria, IL 61625 ------------------------------------- To join this group or have your thoughts in the next issue, please send electronic mail to Ken Davis at the following address; {pacbell,netsys,hoptoad,well}!lamc!info-3b2-request The views expressed in Info-3b2 Digest are those of the individual authors only. ********************* End of Info-3b2 Digest *********************