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- From: conte@oprah.ece.scarolina.edu (Tom Conte)
- Subject: Re: New to HPs...Thinking about buying one...need advice...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.034126.6387@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu>
- Keywords: pa-risc, clones, 486/586
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- Organization: ECE Department, University of South Carolina
- References: <1djbb9INNk82@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <RXHyTB1w163w@gcarter>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 03:41:26 GMT
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- In article <RXHyTB1w163w@gcarter>, gcarter!gcarter (George Carter) writes:
- > It no longer makes any sense to buy computer systems
- > hardware from Sun, HP or Next for new applications. Very
- > shortly it will be possible buy the Sun OS, the Next OS,
- > Windows NT and a variety of other UNIX systems that run
- > on the 486/586 platform. Some of these are already
- > available. Only a small performance difference, if any, exists
- > between the reported speed of the 586 and traditional UNIX
- > platforms.
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- Bunk.
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- For my code, a 486DX2 is about 1/16th the speed of my 9000/720.
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- > George
- > gcarter@infoserv.com
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