Modem Capacity of 386's?
Jonathan Bayer
jbayer at ispi.UUCP
Tue Dec 13 01:36:29 AEST 1988
In article <7891 at well.UUCP>, dave at well.UUCP (Dave Hughes) writes:
>
> I am looking for some good guesses. If you were to pluck out of
> the air the number of 1200 baud modem-connected users a 16mhz
> 386 running Sco Xenix 386 with 28mls disk drives and intelligent
> com boards (I am using Computone presently) would support
> satisfactorily, what would you say? 16,24,32?
> Users only readng/writing to disk running either e-mail, foxbase
> like data base programs, conferencing software. No development
> work or compiling.
You have described a very lightly-loaded environment. It should support at
least 24-32 users, and probably more. Make sure that you have enough memory
to support them. Figure about 512k for a foxbase session, less for mail and
conferencing.
Jonathan Bayer
Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
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