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From: kzin@terminus.gatech.edu (John Rudd)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: BSD/386 and 50Mhz 486
Keywords: maximum users, drivers
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Date: 30 Sep 92 11:17:12 GMT
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kzin@terminus.gatech.edu (John Rudd) writes:
>I'm looking in to running 2 486/50's running BSD/386 by
>BSDI. I need to know what multi-port boards it has drivers
>for (since most of them only come with drivers for sysv), or
>that I can get drivers for, and how many users people think it'll
>support.
>each will be EISA machines, networked to a third box that provides
>a 56k line to the internet. Each will have a 1.2 GB scsi drive (one
>for users, one for news). Both will play NFS server for the other.
>I'm wanting to hang 24 users off of each machine. That sound overtly
>unreasonable? (no one will be doing anything off of the console..
>except maybe regular terminal like things..definitely no heavy x work
>or anything. Also, most of the things I expect people to do are vi,
>news, mail, and network chat/mud programs. Probably some people will
>be compiling stuff, but I don't expect it to be widespread)
>(alternate configurations are welcome too, but try to keep the price
>range of this setup in mind (under $30k for the two 486's and their
>multiport boards))
I'm sorry..I forgot to mention an important aspect of they two
486 boxes.. They'll probably have 64MB each, and their boot drive
wont be the 1.2 GB drive, but a 200 MB drive (both SCSI).
Consensus makes an intelligent (coprocessor driven) multi-port board
that comes with "drivers for Xenix and Unix". A company called
Stallion makes a simular board, that says the same thing ("comes with
drivers for Xenix and Unix). The Stallion board has a 80186 coprocessor.
(I'm assuming from other things that I have read, that they meant SysV,
anyone that can confirm or refute that, I'd really appreciate hearing so)
John Rudd -- kzin@cc.gatech.edu ex- kzin@ucscb.ucsc.edu
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