bruce@trigraph.uucp (Bruce Freeman) (06/23/89)
What is the current feeling on how a DS3100 would perform as a multi-user machine? For example suppose one had a 3100S and connected to it using LAT terminal servers. How would 32 users on this machine compare with the more traditional 32 user MicroVAX 3XXX? The 3100 obviously has more raw CPU power but what about I/O and disk bandwidth? My gut feeling is that the 3100 is better off as a single user workstation or compute/file server than as a multi-user timesharing system. However I have not seen any articles giving hard facts on this subject and our local DEC VAR has barely heard of the DS3100 (it doesn't run VMS after all). Anybody else got the same questions or better yet answers? Bruce Freeman -- Bruce Freeman Trigraph Inc., Toronto, Canada utzoo!trigraph!bruce
graham@fuel.dec.com (kris graham) (06/24/89)
>What is the current feeling on how a DS3100 would perform as a >multi-user machine? An intergrated 32-user Ultrix workload shows the DS3100 to faster than any of the following: MicroVAX II VAX 3400 VAX 3600 VAX 3800 VAX 6210 Christopher Graham Digital Equipment Corp Ultrix Resource Center