Jargon file v2.1.5 28 NOV 1990 -- part 5 of 6

[Tim Oldham]

In article <1990Dec03.015154.9137 at kithrup.COM> sef at kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>In article <O7Y77DB at xds13.ferranti.com> peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>The 386 box on my desk at work is a comparable
>>machine, with 5 times the RAM of the old 11/70, but more than 10 users kill
>>it dead. And that's probably more users than the typical 386-class UNIX box
>>is expected to support.
>
>That's because the '386 box, although it has the processing power, doesn't
>have the I/O power.  I.e., NO BANDWIDTH!

True for a basic generic 386 box. Bung in a decent disk cache board with
a few Megs and, say, a 286 and you're away. Usually. Application
specific, of course.

	Tim.
-- 
Tim Oldham, BT Applied Systems. tjo at its.bt.co.uk or ...uunet!ukc!its!tjo
Well, you'd have a corporate siege mentality, too.