How do you like your Pyramid System?

[Welch]

We are considering purchasing a Pyramid MIS computer system to
replace 3 Vax 11/780's, 2 Vax 11/750's, and 2 ISI V.20 systems.

I'd now like to hear opinions from Pyramid owners about how they
like their system, how well they perform, what type of
problems you have had (with hardware, software, support
from Pyramid, etc.).

Last week, I posted this same type of question to comp.sys.sequent.
I asked Sequent owners what they thought about their system and I
got back about 8 replys, all basically saying that they loved their
system, but didn't like the fact that the software was behind the
times.  I'm convenced that a Sequent system will be perfect for
us, but after looking into Pyramid, I feel I need to get more
information before making a decision.

If anyone has worked with both Sequent and Pyramid systems and
care to comment on their relative merits, (both the products
and the companies) I'd love to hear about it.

Also, can any of you give some estimations on how large of
a Pyramid system we will need?  (How large is yours and
how many users can use it at once.)   Can one 14 MIP Pyramid
processor really outperform two 5 MIP Sequent processors?
(using the new Sequent processor board with two 20Mhz 80386s)

We would like to run with a peek load of 60-100 concurrent
users doing simple text editing (vi), e-mail, and news reading.
Most of these would be connecting through telnet connections.

Thanks for any words of wisdom you can give me,

Curt Welch
curt at dtix.dt.navy.mil
David Taylor Research Center (A Navy Lab)
Bethesda, MD
(301) 227-1428