Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 14:45:28 08/19/99
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On August 19, 1999 at 17:04:31, Zachariah Amela wrote: > >> >>Sorry, but that appears to be an oxymoron. Crafty on my PII/300 notebook is >>over _twice_ as fast as crafty on a sun ultrasparc/300 machine... ;Yes you >>read that right. _twice_ as fast... >> > >Hmmm....well I'll be durned. Why do your reason this is so? What OS is on the >notebook? Thanks. > >My next computer purchase is not going to be a Wintel, and everyone tells me Sun >is the place to be, but maybe not. Suggestions? If you have heaps of money to spend on a computer, then Sun is the place to be. It is hard to justify their high price: the boxes are expensive, the operating system is expensive and the developing tools are expensive. I mean, Sus's cc compiler is not included in the license for Solaris, you have to buy it and it is not cheap. Devices are also very highly priced, a 1 Gb harddisk was around 20000 mexican pesos last time we checked (1 US dollar = 10 mexican pesos, approximately). But they are nice machines. I use them all day long, fortunately I do not have to pay with my money for them (: When I read the reviews of the new Sun computers, they all seem to be near perfect, Performance Computing always gives them "Excellent" or "Outstanding" grades (and they are clearly biased towards NT, not Solaris). Unfortunately their prices almost seem like jokes.
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