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?
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