> > Pentium III, hell the K6-2/450 here with Solaris 8 beat the
> > UltraSparc10 (300MHZ)... (gcc compile and build of an object over NFS with
> > the same server).
> >
> > Amazing that my home toy outperforms the work box.
> >
> > Both had IDE drives and 128mb memory.
> > (Personally, I prefer FreeBSD on the K6... but that wasn't what I was
> > testing in the benchmark)...
> >
> > Bill
>
> Now, you want the really scarry part? Price what it would cost you to get a
> nice SparcStation 20 (5 year old system) with say 1 SM71 CPU, 128MB RAM, 4GB
> HD, and 8-Bit graphics. Then price what you can get if you go buy *new* PC
> hardware that will run Solaris! Shoot, just price a nice SS20 on eBay then
> the PC hardware at your local shop, even that can be scarry!
>
> Zane
Which is why all my Sparcs are dumpster dive refugees (Sparc2's some
with Sparc-UP double clocking. A Sparc10's still a useful machine to
me, since it runs Solaris 8 and can run FrameMaker...
Unfortunately, Adobe stopped supporting Frame on x86 Unix in the 2.x
timeframe and I'm stuck with (ugh) Win9x/NT/2k or my time limited Linux
demos that run out this month...
I've got a 420R at work -- and I think a multicpu PIII would put it to
shame in the price/performance area.
That's why I was deploying dual boot Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris8 and Win9x/NT
boxes at work... The best of both worlds.
Bill
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Received on Tue Nov 14 2000 - 19:07:00 GMT