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April 2001, Week 3

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Re: Time to create HP9000-L?
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Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>
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Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 17 Apr 2001 23:45:38 -0400
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Richard Gambrell wrote:

> Jeff,
>
> Wait, now, let's not give the wrong impression. It isn't a fair fight.
> Our 9000 is maybe about 6 times faster and has a bunch more disk
> space, but it does only a smidgen of the workload of our 3000.
>
> Our 9000 supports commercial packages for Financial Aid and
> Bursar/AR (Banner) and (recently) the  Library (VTLS Virtua).
>
> Our 3000 supports custom applications for Academic Records and
> Registration [...long list of applications snipped...]

But I thought that was common knowledge that a David-sized 3000 could
way outperform a Goliath-sized 9000 :-)

Jeff

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