From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 15 12:37:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 968B737B99E for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 12:37:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@nwlink.com) Received: from utah (jcwells@utah.nwlink.com [209.20.130.41]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id MAA16152; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 12:36:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 12:48:27 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcwells@utah To: j mckitrick Cc: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! In-Reply-To: <20000815163646.A39188@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, j mckitrick wrote: > What clock speed is that CPU? And what kind of apps are run on a > workstation of this type? I guess i'm just wondering what people use > SOlaris machines for besides servers. WHat do they do well that windows > machines don't do well? All major high end CAD runs on Solaris. With SGI sort shuffling around trying to figure out what the hell they want to do, I would use Solaris if I had the money for both an Ultra-Whateveritistody and Pro Engineer. This package would run you about $30K. Thank you, Jason C. Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message