<> If
you're doing ray tracing, get a fast PC.
<> If you're timesharing dozens of people, a VAX is not a bad choice.
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<I remain unconvinced(!).
Wait! What I'm saying is that if you were sufficiently motivated, you could
very well timeshare dozens of people on a PC.
I have a dozen or so PS/2 model 95 servers, which are 486 either DX2-66 or
a slightly faster DX50, and what I have been told is that routinely each
machine would serve between 50 and 100 clients in a common business
environment.
When I get a bit more time I am anxious to see what they will do running
semimodern software as some sort of web or ftp server.