The keyboard of Dan Pritts emitted at some point in time:
>
> On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Marcus Watts wrote:
>
> > The same comments regarding CPU on the C20
> > should apply to the ultrasparc. It's likely to make
> > the most difference for backups & the database
> > servers, & the least for a fileserver.
>
> note that the ultra 2's have built-in fast/wide scsi and
> all the ultras have fast ethernet. this might make a
> significant difference in a fileserver application.
In fact, any half-decent workstation shipped from 1992 should
make for good fileservice if that is to be delivered through
one or two 10 Mbit ethernet interfaces. Only if a large number
of disks are needed, the number of interfaces required would
dictate using backplane machines.
> > In all cases, 32M ram.
>
> is more not useful?
Depends how many demons you run. after the kernel had it bite at
memory, 1 Megabyte per spindel and two per tape device should be
enough. Some of that is already on the disk drives themselves.
However, if you also run an X-server, mwm, nameservers, news
servers, web servers and other such crud, then they need extra
memory. Printing is almost "free", unless you drive bitmapped
colour printers directly.
Thomas
* email: cmaae47 @ imperial.ac.uk
