Cache board .vs. caching kernel (Re: ESDI controller recommendations)

[Fred Rump from home]

In article <73 at calcite.UUCP> vjs at calcite.UUCP (Vernon Schryver) writes:
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[bunch of nonsense deleted]

>All of these companies have UNIX source, and are not affraid to try to do
>better than AT&T's file system, buffer cache, regions, etc.  Some, including
>my day time employer, have been successful.

Ok, shall we guess and blame Silicone Graphics for you?

Just for the hell of it, how many users would you hang onto one of those 
wonderful workstations you describe? Are we still in the same general 
neighborhood?


>After buying tape, 2nd hard disk, 2 UNIX's, RAM, TB+, and so on, I have
>about $10,000 in this 386 clone.  That may be less than the price of a
>useful SPARK Station or DEC 2100 (you need a disk), but not much less.
>During the day, I use a <censored>, and find it incomparably faster than
>this 386.  Someday maybe I'll be rich and able to replace it.

You sure got hosed by somebody. No wonder you hate your box. For that kind of 
money we could put you into a neighborhood of real i/o. None of that fancy 
graphics stuff, of course. We don't normally need it.

But lots of raw speed that would compete effectively with any of the boxes you 
mentioned.


>Anyone buying a machine today should talk to more than the nearest PC VAR.
>Sorry, but I don't have useful sales office addresses for more than two of
>these vendors, and you should talk to them all, and others such as NEXT.

You seem to be completely ignorant of what the majority of the VARs that read
this group sell. UNIX/Xenix = multi-user. We need lots of i/o. Ergo a DPT.

The only RISC machine I know of that will also run lots of terminals is the 
MIPS 2000. It starts at around $50G's. Not quite the neighborhood we were 
talking about, right?


>Vernon Schryver vjs at calcite.uucp   or    ...{pyramid,sgi}!calcite!vjs

Fred Rump

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