Kent Covert ([log in to unmask]) wrote: : OpenVMS Upgrade Approved! : Miami Computing and Information Services, in cooperation with Digital Equipment : Corporation, is pleased to announce that a new OpenVMS system has been ordered : to replace the overloaded VAX 6000-410 in Kreger Hall. The new system will be a : DEC 4000-710 AXP and is based on the new DEC Alpha family of processors. [...] : MCIS estimates that 80% of the clients using the current system will see no : change (other than a significant speed increase) as a result of the migration to : the new system. Question: So what kind of effect do you suppose this is going to have on the network that already bogs down when the vax gets 20+ users on it when we start increasing that traffic? Or is MCIS planning on upgrading or segmenting this network? Or is the bottleneck in the dataswitch? +--------------------------------------------------------------/\--------+ | Mike Jones | NeXT Administrator / \ | |------------| Internet : [log in to unmask] /\/\/\ /\ | | ByTor | Compu$erve: 73353,1134 /\ / \/ \ | +------------------------------------------------------/ \/ \ \+