A/UX on the IIsi

[Douglas Brockett]

I have some questions that I hope the net can answer for me.  My group
does a lot of C coding for data analysis systems which run on various
UNIX and Mach platforms.  We also use Mac's for spreadsheets, graphics,
wordprocessing etc.  A things stand, we all have Mac Plusses on our
desks and use NCSA telnet to connect to a single large compute server.
To upgrade our current development environment we have been considering
buying Mac IIsi's with A/UX 2.0, each with about 160M of hard disk and 5-8M 
of RAM.  Another alternative would be for us to buy diskless low-end 
Sparcstations.  

1) What are people's opinions about the relative performance of these 
   two options?

2) Has anybody out there ever run A/UX on a IIsi?

3) Can anybody comment on the relative performance of AUX on a IIsi
   vs. a IIci?

4) Are there other important issues that we should consider?

If you could please e-mail your responses to dbrockett at bbn.com, 
they would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,

Doug Brockett