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Subject: Re: Unofficial Wang Page

Posted By: Thomas Junker
Date: 7/15/02 at 5:01 a.m.

In Response To: VS SURVIVAL (Thomas Junker)

Subject: Re: Unofficial Wang Page

Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 14:13:47 -0500

On 1 Nov 97 at 13:47, xxxx wrote:

> Hi -

Hi!

> Just following directions and e-mailing you about my interest in
> your page.

Thank you very much. It is very helpful to know who is out there and what they are doing with VS systems.

> I work for [...]

I've heard of those systems, of course, but have only heard directly from a couple of them.

> as an operations manager, but I'm very interested in systems.
>
> We currently have a VS 7180 with approximately 175 workstations

Comfortable, I imagine, if you have enough memory and all 175 are not banging away at the same time in PACE apps.

Do you have all SCSI disk drives or do you still use SMD? I did an interesting study for one client that showed that it costs serious money to continue to operate SMD drives. It also contributes to the vicious circle of slow nightly processing / backups, inflexibility of night schedule, late daytime startup, and "constipation" of configuration and other system mods and upgrades.

Same for 4mm tape vs 3480 tape.

CPU speed is part of that vicious circle, though upgrading the CPU alone doesn't help much.

> (soon to be significantly expanded).

Interesting. How about the CPU? How much of the day do you presently run at 100% CPU utilization? The VS16850 board upgrade seems to be selling like hotcakes, with the cheaper VS16750 suitable for a few marginal sites. I assume you're getting some good advice in your expansion to keep things in balance.

> We're in the process of migrating to an NT environment, but will
> continue to use the Wang for our database for some years to come.

Yuck to the NT environment, although MS seems to be bent on making NT more and more like a real operating system. I suppose in time it will become very hard to avoid.

> Good to find your site. Keep up the care and maintenance.

Thank you. I will.

Do you have large disks (4gb, or 2gb mostly full or mostly empty) such that DISKUSE no longer runs on your system? Wang has a new utility that solves this problem and handles up to 256 drives and drive sizes up to 1.5 terabytes. It's bundled, so any maintenance customer should be able to get it for the asking. As of yesterday the WSC in Atlanta still didn't know about it but that should be mostly straightened out Monday.

How about WWW access to your VS? Do you have any interest in that?

Are you making use of VS TCP/IP? Did you know that it really works, and supports ftp and inbound telnet from PCs running something like Reflections TCP/IP? It also does SMTP to handle internet-style email and interfaces it to Wang Office mail. It's one of Wang's best-kept secrets, as is the ease with which a VS can be connected to a LAN.

I'll be pleased to hear from you any time if you have questions or comments.

Thanks again for writing!

Regards,

Thomas Junker

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