Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:20:48 08/20/99
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On August 20, 1999 at 10:57:43, Zachariah Amela wrote: >>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. > >Thanks for the information! So Linux comes with C/C++ AND Fortran. Great. >Yeah the cost is really bad for the C++ dev. envir. for Solaris. Is there a >BASIC compiler available? > >It's good to hear first hand knowledge. Everyone was trying to sell me a Sun, >but perhaps that would have been a mistake. > >Thanks again. I was the first person in our department to dump Sun and go with intel/linux. It is becoming more common. It pisses everyone when I have a machine that costs less than theirs, is 10X faster than theirs, and has all these tools ready to run. :) I haven't had a sun in my office in 3 years now. I will _never_ have another sun in my office. on a cpu-by-cpu comparison they have nothing at all to offer to offset the Intel PIII machines at 600mhz.
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