Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 10:50:50 +0400 (GMT+0400) From: Anthony Graphics <agl@mac.glas.apc.org> To: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@geli.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Case for FreeBSD presentation docs? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950420104719.11088A-100000@mail.redline.ru> In-Reply-To: <199504191527.IAA02642@geli.clusternet>
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On Wed, 19 Apr 1995, Russell L. Carter wrote:
> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 08:27:02 -0700
> From: Russell L. Carter <rcarter@geli.com>
> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: Case for FreeBSD presentation docs?
>
> |As Julian Elischer wrote:
> |>
> |> work on the price of the WS vs the Price of a good PC
^^
AXP PCI 33 board costs approx 1100 USD with 166 mhz Alpha in the States
I guess: no much difference from PC taking in account the cost
of the really good peripherials you need to run UN*X + XFree.
$700 P9000 card with 4 megs of VRAM, ~$1150 for the 32 MEGS in
the 72pin SIMMs that qualify (say DEEEEEC ;-), SCSI devices, etc
Can you really say 100 Mhz 486 matches the performance? ;-)
AGL
> |> and point out you can get free CDs (:
> |
> |... and good support. :)
> |
>
> This is absolutely true. I've never seen such quick
> support for an OS. Linux is good, too. I've had to deal with
> SGI SUN IBM CRI TMC Intel and got mostly whining and "RSN" for
> my trouble (and expense). But, it is a hard thing to try and
> convince nonbelievers, so I usually don't try. But if I were
> a research project ;-), access to source code and kernel hackers
> without trauma might be a real powerful win.
>
> Cheers,
> Russell
>
>
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