phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller) (03/09/90)
We have a Sun 3/260 which is used for e-mail, news, and SAS & S processing by users who either telnet from PC's or connecttions via modems or our university digital async switching system via an ALM-2. During prime time there are frequently 8-12 users signed on at a time. Originally I had planned to upgrade the CPU from the 68k to SPARC about now, but I am having second thoughts. Since the cost of the upgrade is approximately the same as purchasing a SparcStation, I wonder whether that might make more sense. I realize that some of my software costs may be greater, but having multiple machines might really make up for it in performance. I would be interested in anyone else's experience and/or opinions about upgrading the 3/260. J. Philip Miller, Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Box 8067 Washington University Medical School, St. Louis MO 63110 phil@wubios.WUstl.edu - Internet (314) 362-3617 phil@wubios.wustl - bitnet uunet!wuarchive!wubios!phil-UUCP (314) 362-2693(FAX) C90562JM@WUVMD - bitnet
roberts@studguppy.lanl.gov (Doug Roberts) (03/11/90)
In article <5638@brazos.Rice.edu> phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller) writes:
I would be interested in anyone else's experience and/or opinions
about upgrading the 3/260.
I am upgrading my 3/260 to a Solbourne 5/501. The cost to upgrade the 260
to a 32 MB 4/330 (16 MIPS) would have been ~$16,000. I chose instead to
get a 22 MIP, 4.8 MFLOP SPARC, and keep the 3/260. The cost for the
Solbourne (16 MB, diskless, w/o monitor) was $18,500. If we later feel the
need, we can buy another CPU for it and make it a 40 MIPS server. The
Solbourne seems to be 100% Sun SPARC binary compatible.
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