Academic workstations -- Followups to comp.unix.questions ONLY

[Dirk Grunwald]

oooo..cheeky cheeky

The 3/260 is less than a two years old.

At that time:
	+ Wren IV had same bandwidth as Wren V, less density.
	+ 741 was best controller available on the market, other
	  than Rimfire, which didn't work with 4.0

Hardly a PDP/1.

The point of the message was that disk aggregate bandwidth increases faster
for smaller disks; central file servers devote high $$ resources to
serving clients. The ability to incrementaly upgrade your system decreases
(witness that we still have that 741) and your total performance is poor.

For example, a 3/60 with a local CDC Wren-V runs small latex jobs about
10% to 20% faster than a 3/60 serviced by a an idle file-server on an
idle network. And it'll do it for less money.


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Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Illinois 		  (grunwald at flute.cs.uiuc.edu)