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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
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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 :-)
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