What is the official availability status of A/UX

Charles L Ditzel benoni at ssc-vax.UUCP
Thu Mar 31 15:22:43 AEST 1988


In article <1793 at louie.udel.EDU>, garrett at udel.EDU (Joel Garrett) writes:
> Would a beefed-out II make a decent NFS server for a lab of IIs, or would
> something like a Sun-server be a better idea?
The read/write benchmarks given in the mac newsgroup showed that A/UX on
a Mac II is as much as 3 to 5 times slower than the lowest end Sun (3/50)...
what do you think.  I think a Sun server would be the obvious choice.

I doubt that you will see too many people using Mac IIs as servers.   The
machine is just too slow. (Some people attribute this to the LACK of a DMA
others attribute it to the choice of SYS5 (vsBSD4.2) file structure -in any
case its slow).



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