386 machine capacity
Farhad Khansefid
farhad at corwin.usc.edu
Wed Mar 2 02:04:05 AEST 1988
Hi,
I read somewhere that the 286 machine in a multiuser environment, sharply
degrades in performance when the number of users exceed 3 in normal
applications.
My questions is whether anyone has used a 386 engine for more than 8 users
running data-entry or other types of applications (not heavy calculations)
in a xenix environment?
- How does the performance degrade compared
to a one or two user system?
- Did you have to use Smart serial ports?
- How far do you think one can push a 386?
- Would 28ms disk access time be sufficient
or you need to spend some buck for 18/16.5 ms?
Any related experience is appreciated. Please send responses
directly to me and I will summarize and post.
Thanx. farhad at corwin.usc.edu
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