>On July 8, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>> Depends if it is all there, including the OS, and the media for the OS.
>> Still not a whole lot. Indy's are pretty slow. It's the Indigo2's that
>
> I've an Indy with a 200MHz R4400 that's anything but slow. Granted
>the majority of them have crappy R4000s or R4600s, but beefier R4400
>or R5000 machines are around.
>
> -Dave McGuire
The problem is your 200Mhz R4400 is only slightly faster than one SM71
which is a SuperSparc II running at 75Mhz. My Sparc 20 with Dual SM71's
feels slow at times, mainly when doing web browsing or software compiles.
I'd love to have an SGI box, but they're even more expensive than Sun's or
DEC Alpha's. An even bigger problem for me is you can have a x86 box
running Solaris 8 that will totally blow away any moderatly fast SGI or
Sparc system and will likely cost a lot less. My Dual 400Mhz Celeron
running Linux pretty blows away any of my other systems with the possible
exception of my Mac, and my DEC PWS 433au.
I think the real issue is, I don't like slow UNIX systems! In part because
I tend to use them in a very GUI fashion with lots and lots of colours, and
I like lightening fast response. Even worse, I must confess I run
'enlightenment' for my Windowmanager both at home and at work (though with
rather toned down themes), although I do run CDE on the Sparc 20. The
worst part of this whole thing is the main app I run is 'xterm' :^) Though
I do tend to run *lots* of them.
OK, does that last paragraph sound as strange as I think it does :^)
Zane
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Received on Sun Jul 08 2001 - 23:36:44 BST