chris@gistdev.gist.com (Chris LaReau) (03/23/90)
I've seen this asked before, but I didn't see any replies. A friend of mine is working on a deal to outfit a customer with a bunch of 386's running some flavor (to be determined) of unix. It can't be a deal unless he can get a big-name word processor that will run (multi user over dumb terminals) on the box. I just read the ad in the April byte about MS Word 5.0 for SCO Unix, so I know that something exists (or will RSN :-); are there any others he should look into? Also, my friend wants the boxes (25 MHz 386's) to run 25 or so word processing sessions at once (over smart serial cards). I do development, and a 25 MHz 386 isn't enough power for *one* of me compiling something, but these people are just going to be typing on a word processor. Is he way off base in thinking that the machine will handle such a user load (with appropriate memory, etc)? Thanks for your attention. I will post a summary to the net if anyone is sufficiently interested.