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- From: phd85@seq1.keele.ac.uk (D.H. Holden)
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- Subject: Re: Who wants faster machines was DEC ALPHA Performance Claims
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 12:54:56 GMT
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- From article <1992Nov18.175349.1664@cis.uab.edu>, by hyatt@cis.uab.edu (Robert Hyatt):
- > In article <1992Nov18.162956.2990@ncar.ucar.edu> pack@acd.ucar.edu (Daniel Packman) writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov18.012919.2493@cs.uow.edu.au> pdg@cs.uow.edu.au (Peter Gray) writes:
- >>>
- >>>Which nicely ties in with my opinion of the "Specmark race"
- >>>which is "who cares?". At our site we have ~100 SUN's.
- >>>No HP, no DEC, no RS6000. How many of our SUN users want
- >>>a faster machine? About 2. For the rest 10 Mips (SS1 type speed)
- >>>is plenty.... How many banks need 100 Mips on peoples desktops?
- >>
- >
- > I agree. Even if I were to stop doing "number crunching" on my workstation,
- > SS1 speeds are fair, but not great. I have an SS2 (40mhz) with a local 400
- > meg disk and it is better. However, as X grows and increases it's function-
- > ality more, it will become too slow. My old Sun 3/50 seemed quite fast
- > five years ago. Now, you can't give 'em away.
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- any one want to give me one? :)
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