From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 20 00:41:07 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA21206 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 00:41:07 -0700 Received: from redline.ru (root@mail.redline.ru [194.87.69.22]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA21200 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 00:40:52 -0700 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 10:50:50 +0400 (GMT+0400) From: Anthony Graphics X-Sender: agl@mail.redline.ru To: "Russell L. Carter" cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Case for FreeBSD presentation docs? In-Reply-To: <199504191527.IAA02642@geli.clusternet> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 19 Apr 1995, Russell L. Carter wrote: > Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 08:27:02 -0700 > From: Russell L. Carter > 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 > >