Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:14:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> To: Chris Watson <scanner@webspan.net> Cc: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, Kevin Lyda <kevin@NDA.COM>, dennis@etinc.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDI 2.0 vs. FreeBSD 2.x Message-ID: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960618100804.6297A-100000@covina.lightside.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960618033450.12421B-100000@orion.webspan.net>
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On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Chris Watson wrote: > Why ultrasparc? I assume its because the applications are for sparc? > > I dont know if you've read specs lately but the alpha's are more of a > punch for the $ than any sparcs. At least the data i have seen shows them > to be. Didn't know if you had looked at alphas as an alternative. It's more for the OS (Solaris is supposed to be optimized for real-time performance), hardware compatibility (we're using some SBus cards), and familiarity (we did the prototype on SPARC 20's). I know the Alpha is probably the best bet for high-end stuff, but we use them at school (some running VMS, YUCK!) and my only complaint is that DEC is pretty bureaucratic in an IBM sort of way (you gotta get a license key for EVERYTHING!). At least I'm going to tell them to buy UltraSPARC for everything, since they are considering buying the much lower performance (for almost the same price!) SPARC 20's... ---Jake > -- > > ===================================| Webspan Inc., ISP Division. > FreeBSD 2.1.0 is available now! | Phone: 908-367-8030 ext. 126 > -----------------------------------| 500 West Kennedy Blvd., Lakewood, NJ-08701 > Turning PCs into Workstations | E-Mail: scanner@webspan.net > http://www.freebsd.org | SysAdmin / Network Engineer / Security > ===================================| Member BSDNET team! http://www.bsdnet.org > > >
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