1Re: More on Genera 8.00

[GRoberts@YUKON.SCRC.Symbolics.COM (Gary Roberts)]

    Date: Thu, 22 Feb 90 14:28 EST
    From: miller@CS.ROCHESTER.EDU (Brad Miller)

        Date: Wed, 21 Feb 90 11:37:58 EST
        From: buff%pravda@gatech.edu (Richard Billington)

        About the ability to run more than one Symbolics from a Sun, as I
        remember it the UX400 needs only a single slot in a Sun, and the
        Sparc 330 (the minimal Sparcstation taking symbolics boards) has three
        slots that it can go in. Does this mean: 1 x SPARCstation 330, 2 x
        additional 300+Mb disks, 2 Xterminals, 3 Symbolics UX400S and software
        YIELDS three near-top-end Symbolics? Do we need more than ethernet
        port to make this work effectively?

    The 4/330 indeed has 3 tall slots, but one will be unusable if you put a
    console board in. If you want to get expanded UX400 memory, that needs
    another slot too. But barring memory, you would want 3 Xterminals, not two,
    or only two UX400s boards, and one Xterminal.

    I don't know what the performance implications are of this configuration,
    but I'd love to hear them. Eric Byers, with the sales support group in
    Manilus tells me that you really want the local console for development
    work, remotely the windows are much slower. For delivery, it's a more
    reasonable configuration, though...

In Genera 8.0, the difference between remote and local console access is
small.  In fact, members of our Software Development team have been
using remote console configurations for their day-to-day development
work, with excellent results.

    Will two 300mb disks really be enough? You'll need paging for 4 machines
    (the three 400s's and UNIX, plus e unix fs for the unix kernel, /etc, etc.