9 Aug
1999
9 Aug
'99
9:02 a.m.
At 03:47 PM 8/9/99 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
Yeah but did you explain that you can pile 30 users
on that 3900 and it'll
still perform about the same? That's not even possible with current Wintel
hardware.
I'd have to disagree Dave, we've got some P133's acting as servers with
FreeBSD on them and they often get more than 30 users. The 3900 definitely
does a better job at _balancing_ 30 users since there is a lot more compute
power distributed throughout its I/O channels, which is the greatest
failing for PCs. However, if either the NGIO of Future I/O groups succeed
in displacing PCI off the motherboards of "Wintel" architectures that
advantage will go away.
--Chuck