How many users _really_ ?

[Jonathan Patrick Leech]

In article <1045 at aber-cs.UUCP> pcg at cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
>Agreed. In most light applications, i.e. o.a. or general timesharing, at any
>one time 1/10th of the users are running a process. A Vax 11/780, which is a
>much less powerful machine than a suitably configured 386, could easily run
>two dozen (and three dozen with some effort) users doing small compiles
>etc...

    Only if you *like* waiting 5 minutes for "hello.c" to compile, or
several seconds for screen updates (at 4800 baud, yet).  We had a 780
as the main student machine at Caltech some years back, and it could
not comfortably handle more than 10-15 users or so.

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    Jon Leech (leech at apple.com)
    Apple Integrated Systems
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