Re: TI-H: heh


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Re: TI-H: heh




>In a message dated 11/29/98 10:20:24 PM Central Standard Time,
>gussie@alaska.net writes:
>
>> >>  And if you realy want a good Sun, you would have to get a Sparq.  I
>think
>>  >>  they start at $25,000 or so.  But again, it will eat pents and PPCs for
>>  >>  lunch.
>>  >The directly above statement (it will eat pents...) is true.  However, I
>>  >personally would prefer to have 20 decent P II class machines to a single
>>  >Sparq.  For this reason, I don't think that the statement about getting
>> what
>>  >you pay for, is true.  Perhaps for the scientist running some pretty
>> intense
>>  >applications, maybe some stuff dealing with number permutations or
>> something,
>>  >it is, but for the other 4,999,999,999 people in the world, I don't think
>> so.
>>
>>  If someone were to offer you a fully decked spark, it would be kinda
>>  strange not to accept it.  Esp[ecially at 600-800MHz.
>I sure would take it.  But if I was offered a choice of, even 10 P II 450 mHz
>PCs, or the Sparq, I sure would take the PCs.

Then you must not know you could sell the sun and get $40,000 from the
profit...  Gee, atleast look at it from more than one angle.


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