386 machine capacity

[William E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <296 at alice.marlow.reuters.co.uk> fox at alice.UUCP (Paul Fox) writes:
| [...]
| My experiences of using Xenix/386 are that it seems to perform very
| well for a single user. For multiple users, it doesnt do too badly as
| long as you dont push the machine.
| 
| The hardware I use is a Compaq/386 running at 16Mhz, with a 70MB drive
| and an Excelan Ethernet card.

  How much memory do you have? It sounds like "damned by faint praise"
to me, and I wonder if you would give us the rest of the configuration.
I have up to three users on a 16MHz 386, and can rarely tell if there is
someone else on the machine. I run 1.5MB for the system + 500k per user.
When I had less memory, the system did bog down when the third user came
on. I plan to go to about 9MB by the end of the year, assuming that
memory prices come down.

  Good points on the disk buffer size.
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