Purchasing a Sun 3/280 for a timesharing system.

[mi...@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu.uucp]

We are about to get a SunServer 3/280 workstaion to serve as the
central unix machine for our research lab. It will have a dozen or
so serial terminals tied into it along with 4-5 IBM-PC and Amiga
Workstations using ethernet and NFS software. An average number of
users at prime time would be about eight, they would be performing a
mix of tasks ranging from software development to text processing and
news reading.

Has anyone had experience using a SunServer? Do they perform this
function well? Can they handle the load? The system we are looking
at as eight-MEG of memory and a 500 meg drive. The one other system
wee are looking into is a Celerity 1200. Please do not both to
suggest other machines, we have looked at many and already have
several Apollos, VAX's and Micro-Vaxs in the lab.

Thanks...
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Rich Miner ...!wanginst!ulowell!miner
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