From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Nov 14 23:42:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA01112 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 23:42:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason05.u.washington.edu (jason05.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA01105 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 23:42:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul9.u.washington.edu (root@saul9.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.7]) by jason05.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id XAA45642; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 23:42:18 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul9.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id XAA11782; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 23:42:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 23:42:00 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: FreeBSD-chat cc: Ken Keeler Subject: Can you recommend one of these workstations? 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 I will be graduationg before long. I have little experience with expensive unix workstations. The software that I am interested in running is SDRC IDEAS Master Series 6 which is a CAD system among other things. Unfortunately, I cannot this software on FreeBSD. (or can I?) It runs on: Sun, HP, IBM, and SGI. (I have used SGI and wasn't really impressed by IRIX. I have used Solaris in process control and thought it was neat.) Can anyone point me to a good resource (not the vendors please) on how to buy one of these machines? Any recommendations from experienced users/admins on what to stay clear of? Are these machines really any better than Intel based hardware? Is there any hope of FreeBSD being compatible with any of these OSes. I see the SVR4 emulation shows some hope of running "SysV executabls taken from Solaris/x86 2.5.1 and 2.6 systems". I am wondering if this will translate into the ability to run a Solaris Sparc binary. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message