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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Subject: Re: Everex Step MP anybody?
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 05:32:10 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9211150032.18@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <1992Nov08.040015.4766@jho.com> <1992Nov10.224210.12850@openage.openage.com> <1992Nov13.092309.8129@compu.com>
- Keywords: MP
- Lines: 24
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- In article <1992Nov13.092309.8129@compu.com> fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home) writes:
- >gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon) writes:
- >
- >>john@jho.com (John Ho) writes:
- >
- >>>Anybody has experience with the Everex Step MP multi-processor
- >>>486s running SCO-MPX software?
- >
- >>us out the door. Now it looks like the whole project is going to hell in a
- >>hand basket. I would recommend you look elsewhere for MPX boxes. There are a
- >>lot of them like the Compaq and DEC machines that are better.
- >
- >Just for information - we are installing a 250 user Altos 15000 on Monday in
- >NY. I think this 8 Gig SCO UNIX box would kick both the Compaq and DEC
- >machines into smithereens. But then Altos may not have the required label on
- >the box, it simply screems symmetrical performance.
-
- Did NEC ever release their SCO-MPX? They had a 12 slot EISA box that they
- were going to sell with up to 8 processors installed. I saw two of them that
- were going through software QA at NEC, and they seemed reasonably stable.
-
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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