Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:29:46 09/14/99
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On September 14, 1999 at 10:38:48, Zachariah Amela wrote: >>Here's a big hint: there are 100X more Sparc boxes runing Linux, than there are >>X86 boxes running solaris. >> >>It is slow, cumbersome, bloated, buggy, etc... > >Yeah, I figured as much. Wonder why the Army and Air Force still hang on to >Sun? Well, I guess they are government branches...... > >Take care. You would be _amazed_ if you took a tour thru the various weapons labs like LLNL, LANL, ORNL, ONR, ARL, etc... and noticed _all_ the Linux boxes they are now using. Sun is still around, but they are falling further and further behind every month, for reasons that are unknown to me. But basically, their ultra-sparc cpus are about the worst processor you can currently buy if you want raw cpu speed. I can't think of a single machine (current cpu) that the ultra-sparc can beat on a mhz to mhz comparison. And that isn't the end of the story, because their mhz is only about 2x behind everyone else and getting further behind weekly. 750mhz to 1ghz alphas, PIII/600+'s, and Sun drags up the rear with nothing close. And Solaris is not exactly enticing any longer, it has more bugs than an abandoned food factory.
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