Jargon file v2.1.5 28 NOV 1990 -- part 5 of 6

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In article <O7Y77DB at xds13.ferranti.com> peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>                       The 386 box on my desk at work is a comparable
>machine, with 5 times the RAM of the old 11/70, but more than 10 users kill
>it dead. And that's probably more users than the typical 386-class UNIX box
>is expected to support.

Actually, we had a 386/33 with 8Mb Ram, 500Mb FD with a very expensive controller card with about 4M or 8M (I can't remember which) of RAM of its own, two
16-port ARNET SmartPort cards (28-30 ports used) running SCO Unix 386 Sys V.
We were running shared copies of some inhouse software written with dbVista and
Vermont Views (nice stuff, both of them) and also Word Perfect for Unix.  We
didn't have much problem with slow down unless everyone was running a report at
the same time.

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