Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 23:42:00 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: FreeBSD-chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Ken Keeler <kkeysler@nwlink.com> Subject: Can you recommend one of these workstations? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811142323380.21173-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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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
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