roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (08/09/89)
I'm looking for a system to replace an aging Vax-11/750. The
general basic requirement are:
Runs Unix, preferably something fairly close to BSD.
Has good IP networking support, including NFS and nameserver.
Has on the order of 5 times the CPU speed of a 750.
Has on the order of 8 Mbytes of main memory.
Has on the order of 1 Gbyte of disk space.
Dec has some moderately interesting machines which fit this general
outline in their new RISC machines. Sun has some stuff too. What I'm
looking for are suggestions, and experiences about products from other
vendors. I am aware of companies such as Sequent, and MIPS, but don't know
much about their machines; comments from people who have them would be
appreciated. I've heard about the tahoe machines, but don't know who makes
them, or much about them at all; If you have one of those, I'd like to hear
from you. If you have some other machine which I havn't mentioned but
falls into the broad guidelines above, I'd like to hear about that too.
Proposals from vendors would be welcomed.
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