alvitar@madhat.UUCP (Phil Harbison) (10/27/88)
Our company has 80386-based AT machines which run 386/ix and MSDOS. We are looking for CAD packages which support multiple concurrent users on a single 386 machine. Since our people are familiar with Autocad, we would prefer a multiuser version that runs under 386/ix or Xenix. Multiple workstations running Autocad is available, but we prefer to have multiple graphic terminals running on a single 386. Any comments or suggestions are welcome. Please reply by email and I will post a summary. -- Live: Phil Harbison USPS: 3409 Grassfort Drive, Huntsville, AL 35805-5421 UUCP: madhat!alvitar PSTN: 205-881-4317 205-882-4363
jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) (10/29/88)
Why bother? You'll need multiple displays, multiple graphics cards, extra memory, multiple graphics tablets, and a bigger power supply. You would probably also need an expansion chassis to hold all this stuff. So why not just get multiple machines? All but one might be diskless if the machines were networked together, so you could save on hard disks. CAD is CPU-intensive enough that sharing a microprocessor is generally a bad idea, anyway. John Nagle