Re: Cat-5?
We had 40MB drives on our kit at the time, although the maximum partition size was 32MB, ISTR.
I had a Compaq Deskpro 386. By the time the renewals came around, the company had switched to Viglen and a colleague received a spanking new Viglen 486. Woooho! So much power!
So we ran one of our dBASE IV databases on it, to compare it to my 386. For comparison, the 386 generated the monthly report in about 40 seconds. The Viglen 486 took 180 seconds!
We ran some benchmarks on both. It turned out that, although the 486 processor was running rings around the 386, Viglen had cut costs by using the cheapest no-name disk controller they could get their hands on, which ran at about a quarter of the speed of the old Deskpro.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
