nctingue@ndsuvax.bitnet (Mark Tinguely) (04/26/89)
Our department is considering purchasing a Sun 4/280 as their working Unix (tm) Operating System. There has been speculation by some department members that the system can exceed the below requirements. I, personally, have had limited experience with the Sun line and no experience with their SPARC line. I would appreciate any and all comments on the below questions. I will even summarize to the net if the interest is there. Is anyone using a Sun 4/280 for anything but a workstation? In particular what is the maximum number of active (not just sitting at the terminal) users can the system take with decent response times. Would it be unreasonable to have 50 to 75 people concurrently on a Sun 4/280 editing, compiling, executing medium to large sized programs while also having a few LISP, Prolog and Ingres processes also executing? -- Mark Tinguely North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105 UUCP: ...!uunet!ndsuvax!nctingue BITNET: nctingue@ndsuvax.bitnet INTERNET: nctingue@plains.NoDak.edu