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- From: buck@inode.com
- Newsgroups: alt.bbs
- Subject: MUD FOR TBBS?
- Message-ID: <3045683923.23@inode.com>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 15:06:57 EST
- Reply-To: buck@inode.com
- Distribution: USA
- Organization: inode BBS, Usenet Access for NYC (212-679-9146)
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- -=> Quoting Larry@gator.use.com to News <=-
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- > eddys@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Steve Eddy ) writes:
-
- >> ... However, your reply begs the question, what would the
- >>pricetag be for a "state-of-the-art operating system and smart RISC
- >>processor multiport board" system?
-
- > A 486/50 with 16 megs of RAM and 1 GIG of fast SCSI disk space with a
- > multiport board would run in the $3000 range -- depending on video and
- > other options. This would offer enough horsepower to support large
- > multiple file transfers.
-
- 486/50 == smart RISC processor? It's probably just as well that you
- don't use a real RISC machine for heavy multitasking; they really
- do bark when each processes instruction pipeline gets heavily chopped
- up by the scheduler.
-
- > As a point of reference, it isn't uncommon for this machine to be
- > supporting 8 uucp sessions at one time, offering throughput in ...
-
- That same machine could easily support 64 sessions under TBBS, with
- much less system maintenance.
-
- > The Digiboards can support up to 128 ports at 38400 baud and system
- > loading less than 2%. ...
-
- Digiboard makes nice multi-port boards, TBBS supports them directly,
- without the need for a device driver layer.
-
- Unix is a great operating system that does many things well, TBBS
- does one thing very well. It gains it's efficiency from this narrow
- focus, as well as being coded more efficiently in assembler on a
- platform that allows it to talk directly to the hardware.
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