Author: Ian Osgood
Date: 14:36:15 08/23/99
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On August 20, 1999 at 21:20:48, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. How about for memory performance? Do any of the non-Intel workstations have a significantly better memory architecture? Or do you have to return to mainframes and supercomputers for that? Ian
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