Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:19:26 08/19/99
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On August 19, 1999 at 18:29:19, Zachariah Amela wrote: > >> >> 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. > > >I can agree with you there. There prices are quite bad. There lower end >workstation is floating in the 3K range, which isn't too bad. But they kill you >w/ software and parts. > >I might stick w/ an Intel board but put Linux on it. That way I can at least >get away from Windows. What is the cost ratio between a dual pentium running >Linux verses a single processor Sun running Solaris? Just curios. > >More suggestions? SGI w/ Irix? The dual pentium will be _cheaper_ than the sun box. And with linux you get a better unix (solaris is absolutely awful, performance-wise, size-wise, anyway-wise) and a complete set of development tools including C, C++, fortran, etc. For Solaris, those will cost more than the workstation.
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