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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:5329 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1093 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!crcnis1.unl.edu!news.unomaha.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!sylvester.cc.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: vax@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu (Vax) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Stallion multiport cards Date: 23 Sep 1993 20:26:06 -0500 Organization: The University of Texas - Austin Lines: 26 Message-ID: <27tibe$3sq@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu> References: <27c89g$gc@cleese.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: sylvester.cc.utexas.edu In article <27c89g$gc@cleese.apana.org.au>, Mark Newton <newton@cleese.apana.org.au> wrote: >UnixWare really sucks rocks. Take my word for it. >I've been doing some volunteer work for an organization that's using a >UnixWare system with a Stallion EIO Intelligent 8-port serial card. Since >Novell's latest Unix product is so losing, we want to run something cheaper The last place I worked, we ran NetWare on an HP9000-720/730 (I upgraded it). This machine was faster than ANTHING else I have EVER worked on, and its whole hardware was cooler than I thought likely. CPU upgrade took 30 minutes, tops, due to HP's neat hardware design. Well, to make a long story short, management decided to put WordPerfect Office (ouch) on this netware server. The combined lossage of the aforementioned programs was enough to topple this machine; with NO unix users, the thing took 30 seconds for each user you CC'ed a piece of mail to. They switched to a 486-based MS-DOG (i.e. dedicated) server and mail sending was near instantaneous. The happy ending to this story is that I got to purge netware from the fast SCSI-2 drive and got to run CPU-intensive applications all summer on a HP-9000/730 (9730?) which would otherwise have a load of zero. The ten thousand (!!!) dollar 486 hummed quietly, doing nothing but process mail :-) -- Protect our endangered bandwidth - reply by email. NO BIG SIGS! VaX#n8 vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu - Don't blame me if the finger daemon is down