On 26 May, Ken Seefried wrote:

> I'll assume things like a Sequent Symmetry and NCR 3xxx-series are 
> off-limits. 
I don't know the NCR 3xxx-series, but the Sequent Symmetry was quite
miss designed. I administrated a S27 with 8 i386DX20, 80MB RAM and a
bunch of 8" and 9" SMD disks. It was running the old 4.2BSD based Dynix.
I never got more than 200kB/s over the Ethernet. Hey. A Sun 3/60 is
faster! The "high performance" dual channel SMD adapter was not able to
pump more than 700kB from the Fujitsu and NEC disks into the machine. I
used one of the NEC drives later on my MV II with a QD33. I got around
800..900kB/s with that single and much slower CPU over the older and
slower QBus. 
BTW: This machine cost 910,000DM (ca. $450,000) in 1989.
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