SGI Indy2

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Mon Jul 9 02:28:03 2001

On July 8, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> 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.

  Hmm...you running Solaris on that SS20? That might explain it. ;)

> 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.

  Yeah, sure...until you try to do more than one thing at a time.


            -Dave McGuire
Received on Mon Jul 09 2001 - 02:28:03 BST