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- From: mjs@s4mjs.uucp (M.J.Shannon)
- Newsgroups: alt.bbs
- Subject: Re: MUD for TBBS?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.021156.25962@s4mjs.uucp>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 02:11:56 GMT
- References: <BzpsGn.8Cu@gator.use.com> <BzrGJC.Iw@citrus.SAC.CA.US>
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- In article <BzrGJC.Iw@citrus.SAC.CA.US> eddys@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Steve Eddy ) writes:
- ] larry@gator.use.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
- ] : eddys@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Steve Eddy ) writes:
- ] :
- ] : >file. A HOT 486 machine with Unix will fall to its knees and bark like a dog
- ] : >with six or seven simultatneous lines sucking files at high speed. You could
- ] : This is pure rubbish.
- ] : --
- ] : Larry Snyder internet: larry@gator.use.com
- ] : keeper of the Gator uucp: uunet!gator!larry
- ]
- ] 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?
- ]
- ] se
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- Well, I have a boring 386 crawling along at 20 MHz, and a Digiport
- *dumb* 8-port card (with 16550's), and when I'm cranking 3 (hardware
- flow controlled) news feeds at DTE rates of 1 @ 57.6K, 2 @ 38.4K, I only
- see about 10-15% of my machine eaten up. My "state-of-the-art" OS is
- ISC's 386/ix 2.0.2, and I run FAS 2.09.1 as my serial driver. Thruput
- on each port approximates 1600 chars/sec. I don't know the price tag on
- the Digiport, but the price of the OS was $2K-ish several years ago.
- Standard off-the-shelf parts work like a champ for me!
-
- Oh, yeah, while all that's going on, cnews is happy to continue batching
- faster than the serial ports can get rid of 'em -- while it's unpacking
- incoming batches.
-
- Sheesh!
- --
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