Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 03:48:36 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950830034623.17081N@penzance.econ.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <199508300116.KAA27237@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Wed, 30 Aug 1995, Michael Smith wrote: > -Vince- stands accused of saying: > > Hmmm, what about machines in terms like SUN's, HP's will the P90 > > compare to since the Alpha is a fast machine. > > Depends lots on what you're doing with them; in a straight line, the P90 > is pretty quick, but what you put around it largely determines how it will > perform in an applications context. (Especially memory/cache/disk) Hmmm, I see what you mean. Somehow it seems a P590 can handle 20 users doing the same things as a SUN SparcStation 20 alot easier than the SUN can. > >> Anyone who does big models of any sort uses huge amounts of memory, > >> as Rod already observed. > > > > That's true but who would actually need a gig of ram? > > In one of my looking-for-work periods, I did some time as a CAD operator > for the local telephone company, feeding all of their cabling details > into a mixed oracle/GDS database. > > We were using Decstations (mostly /133's) with 64M of core and ~500M of > swap. They used to thrash horribly whenever you moved around the suburb, > and often ran out of swap. The database admin machine had 128M of core > and several GB of swap (for working in larger areas, obviously). > > Ahh, fond memories... whenever you wanted a 5 min. break, a surreptitions > ^\ in the GDS window kept your supervisor scurrying 8) (And none of them > ever worked it out ... ) > > Anyway, this is rather off-topic 8) Oh, I see what you mean now since CAD does require alot =) Cheers, -Vince- vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu - GUS Mailing Lists Admin UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering - UC Berkeley Fall '95 SysAdmin bigbang.HIP.Berkeley.EDU - Running FreeBSD, Real UN*X for Free! Chabot Observatory & Science Center
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