Re: TI-H: heh
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Re: TI-H: heh
By the time you programmed all the software you wanted for your Sparcky,
then Intel would have come out with .4 micron technology, making 10GHz
computers with 1GHz bus's and 1.2Gigabytes of RAM would all be common.
Although I'd accept a Sparc, since I could hook 'er up with a RAID and OC48
and then have a nifty little server going. :)
>
> >In a message dated 11/29/98 5:11:55 AM Central Standard Time,
> >gussie@alaska.net writes:
> >
> >> I think you'd be suprized to see a Sun. You and everyone you know
prefers
> >> CISC because its cheep ($90 for a 300MHz processor, $1,300 for
computer).
> >> But people in the RISC market get what they pay for. ($700 for
300MHz
> >> processor, $6,000 for computer).
> >> And if you realy want a good Sun, you would have to get a Sparq. I
think
> >> they start at $25,000 or so. But again, it will eat pents and PPCs
for
> >> lunch.
> >The directly above statement (it will eat pents...) is true. However, I
> >personally would prefer to have 20 decent P II class machines to a
single
> >Sparq. For this reason, I don't think that the statement about getting
what
> >you pay for, is true. Perhaps for the scientist running some pretty
intense
> >applications, maybe some stuff dealing with number permutations or
something,
> >it is, but for the other 4,999,999,999 people in the world, I don't think
so.
>
> If someone were to offer you a fully decked spark, it would be kinda
> strange not to accept it. Esp[ecially at 600-800MHz.
>
> Grant
-dan
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