Re: NT server, pro/con
Date: 28 Mar 1995 18:44:40 GMT
Message-ID: <LOH.95Mar28134440_at_mtl.mit.edu>
> The only thing I've heard bad about NT is the fact that it does hit a roof
> with large databases and a large number of concurrent users. Also it
> scales only up to two INTEL CPUs in reality - some guy I worked with had
> NT 3.5 on a two PENTIUM box and maxed it out, he then ran the same ORacle
> database on a four Pentium box and it was 10% faster than the 2 Pentium
> box. They were looking into Solaris and UnixWare last I heard.
I have heard that the NT distribution that ships from MS has a HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) that can only use 2 procs. If you do obtain a multi-proc (> 2) box, then you have to make sure that the vendor provides a HAL for the system.
Vince Received on Tue Mar 28 1995 - 20:44:40 CEST