An ISP of their own (was RE: [rescue] Being jobless)

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:

> > > > > I haven't found Mozilla to be too bad (nightly build
> > > > > 2003063013).... but then again, I'm running it on an Ultra 60
> > > > > with a 450MHZ proc and a good deal of memory.
> > > > >
> > > > > It does run slow on the dual SM71 SS20.... although it is still
> > > > > usable as long as you do not need to do LOTS of web based work.
> > > >
> > > > Try it on a machine the speed of an RS/6000 37T.  That's a pretty
> > > > fast machine
> > >
> > > I'm gonna have to call you out on that one.  Anything with a 62.5MHz
> > > POWER in it isn't what I'd classify as a "fast machine."
> >
> > It *easily* outruns a U1/200 on many things.
>
> eer, that sounds very unlikely (well unless you meant outrunning the
> Ultra at being slower that is :) ). The 37T has a measly 60 SpecInt92
> and 121 SepcFP92. So it sucks rocks when it comes to integer, when
> compared to an ultra 200 which has a specint92 of 332 and a specFP92 of
> 505. So unless I am missing something here, I just can not see in what
> would the RS6K 37T be faster.

Try it.  There are specific accelerations for certain CAD operations in
hardware.  Who knows if those operations are in the SPEC suite?

Peace...  Sridhar