[rescue] Cleaning out, anyone want some FREE stuff?

[Mike Hebel]

>>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 11:42:23PM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>>>> Sun machines may have good reliability, but (from experience) don't
>>>> have  very good compute power.
>>>
>>> Them's fightin' words, boy. :)
>> You hold him down while I go get The Trout of Clue...
>> ;-)
>> Mike
>
> Did anyone ever notice that SGI machines were better than Sun? Other
> than a few lacking things in the OS.


A little from column A, a little from column B...


SGI machines IMHO are not "better" just "different".  SGI machines excel
at graphics rendering and video editing - with the right hardware
installed.Sun machines perform best, again IMHO, at heavy mathematical simulation
and database work.Each has their own arena.


> Okay okay, so the Sparcstations could be crammed full of ROSS
> processors. Indy just had style, and came out of the box at 200mhz+
> speeds.


Ummm...Bzzt! ;-)  I personally own a 1xx R4400 that came stock with one of
the two Indy systems I own.  As for Sun they have always had more
processor upgrade options than SGI for the most part.  It all depends on
models, dates, times, and other ephemera.

Mike Hebel
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