On 12/04/07, Rob <robert at irrelevant.com> wrote:
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and what I meant to say when I started writing that (new baby
scrambling my mind, though) was some of the host spec/user ratios I
personally saw:
80486 /33 with 24 users
80386 /33 with 12 users
80286 with 8 users
8086 with 4 users
baydel pdp-11 clone, sorry don't know other spec, with at least 48 users..
performance was always "quite good" althogh some reports could take
some time to run!
I don't think I ever saw more than 24 serial users on a single
processor, but I've seen systems with far more ports (to accomocate
printers.) Over 24 we'd usually put in two servers, networked
(ARCNET).
By, uh, 1995, ethernet was getting more common; I dealt with a couple
of UNIX based systems (SCO) where we used telnet to login to the
server, a few Novell systems (a seperate file server process ran on
the novell fileserver, and a local interpreter ran the apps direct on
PC workstations) and rather a lot of Windows based systems
(fileserver/interpreter on an NT server, either telnet access or local
interpreter, or both, talking to it.) With those, we could run an
awful lot more users per server, and did, because the hardware
available was so much more powerful now, and the apps were basically
the same, not needing that much power.