On Sat, 17 Feb 1996, Duane Percox wrote:
 
> I can think of some reasons:
>
> 1. You are an existing 3k customer and you need more horsepower or an
> additional system. You want to keep your investment in 3k technology.
>
> 2. You have a software package that runs on the 3k.
>
> 3. You want a general purpose business computer system. You don't want to
> deal with unix, you don't believe NT will scale for your needs, and you like
> the price performance and ease of use/operability the 3k gives you over
> other mid-range solutions (as/400 for example).
 
  It makes me wonder if in the future it may just become more cost
effective and efficient to spend money to port apps to UNIX/NT and buy a
whole fleet of P6's or workstations to work as a parallel cluster or
distributed system.
 
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