Re: TI-H: heh


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Re: TI-H: heh




>In a message dated 11/29/98 5:11:55 AM Central Standard Time,
>gussie@alaska.net writes:
>
>> I think you'd be suprized to see a Sun.  You and everyone you know prefers
>>  CISC because its cheep ($90 for a 300MHz processor, $1,300 for computer).
>>  But people in the RISC market get what they pay for.  ($700 for 300MHz
>>  processor, $6,000 for computer).
>>  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.

Grant


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